It really depends on the details. As with so many EU initiatives, the real goal is to remove control from the member states and pass it over to the EU. Labour is giving up our national veto on immigration policy and letting the EU install the qualified majority voting system instead. That basically means that we will no longer be able to implement our own policies, or refuse to use the EU policies, if the majority of the EU member states disagree.
Labour are maintaining that they have installed an opt-out clause instead. This is clearly a weakening of Britain's position, and all part of the slow leak of UK sovereignty to the EU.
Cooperation between countries to deal with Immigration is an excellent idea, but not one that requires EU interference.
Many people in Britain are worried that the free labour movement is creating societal problems across the country. The EU wants its citizens to be able to move across borders freely, as if the EU is one big country. Without national control, how can we ever hope to deal with that issue?
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