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"As I explained in the main debate, there is no legal basis for the Commission’s proposal on the statute and financing of European political parties or the Schleicher report supporting it. The obstinacy of the main federalist groups in pursuing their adoption come what may shows exactly how far the law is respected in the Europe they are building. The same can be said of the French government which, in its note of 9 May, sees no difficulty about using Article 308 in such a case.
In terms of content, the proposed text turns the logical progress of a free society on its head. At national level political parties are created by the citizens and nurtured by their participation. They may eventually be granted public finance by law, but only later on. With this new text, the reverse would happen at European level: public finance from the Community budget would be intended to make European political parties – which do not exist today, or not with any real substance – ‘emerge’.
The perversion, however, does not end there. Next, these artificial creations will be used as evidence of the existence of a so-called ‘European political scene’, which will itself be produced as proof that ‘European democracy’ is working well. And this largely invented ‘European democracy’ will in turn serve to justify the removal of powers from the national democracies, the only truly genuine ones. This anti-democratic machine for despoiling the peoples is operating at full speed, activated in this case by the lure of gain, since the ectoplasms currently entitled ‘European political parties’, supported by their friends in the European Parliament, are waiting impatiently for the time when they can feed on public funds.
Added to these basic reasons for our opposition are many others relating to the irregularity of the text presented, because it gives a ‘statute’ to political parties which ought to remain free, because it is biased in favour of the partisans of supranationality, because it establishes a real political law, and because it institutes indefensible discrimination to the detriment of national parties acting directly at European level. Texts like these show how badly France needs a means of checking that acts derived from Community legislation are constitutional."@en1
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