Translation of "préclusion pour question déjà tranchée " (French → English) :

The matter of establishing a fully-fledged corps of border guards cannot be decided until the first lessons have been learned from the operation of the Agency; for, while the questions being asked about improving the current system for allocating resources to the relevant sectors, and about optimising the profitability of existing mechanisms are quite legitimate, they must not get in the way of the fact – without even going into the highly political nature of creating such a force – that the Member States of the Union already have 450 000 border guards.

The House has already approved the budgetary policy of the government and the Leader of the Opposition cannot reopen a question that has already been determined by the House.

However, given that the vast majority of Member States and the Council take this view or a stronger one in terms of the proposals, if we are to achieve any kind of agreement at first reading here there has to be an indication – perhaps there already has been – that we will follow that line.

It is a necessary rule in Conventions of this kind in order not to subvert the meaning of the exequatur procedure, which does not mean allowing the court in the State in which recognition is sought to rule again on the ruling made by the court in the State of origin.

I can predict that the question of whether or not the euro zone is to be enlarged to include Denmark, Sweden and Great Britain will be decided in Denmark in the referendum on 28 September. The scepticism I have expressed here continues to grow.