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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-12-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Presentation by Mr Prodi of the Commission work for the 2002 programme and the communication on the future of the European Union and strengthening the Community method2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011211.2.2-028"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-12-11-Speech-2-0292
lpv:speaker	lp:Jens-Peter Bonde2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 member; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; JuniBevægelsen (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; EDD (2001-01-30--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Presidents (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, allow me to begin with a prediction: the present Commission will scarcely survive into 2004. It may be toppled by new scandals involving fraud, because the former cases of fraud have not been cleared up and because the reforms that might have prevented new cases have not been introduced. The Commission may also be toppled by Parliament through a vote of no confidence. I believe it is heading for the end of the road if it does not change course now. Parliament’s committee chairmen have asked for what are known as the screening reports on the negotiations with the applicant countries. Parliament’s group chairpersons have repeated the request. Still we have not received them. MEPs sit every day in committee meetings without the relevant and up-to-date papers from the secret legislative process. There is solemn talk of Parliament as co-legislator, but the legislative power has, in reality, been taken over by officials and ministers in the Council and the Commission. We are humiliated the whole time. People who are humiliated can one day deliver a vote of no confidence to the Commission. After the ground rules had been agreed, we should have had the Commission’s legislative programme in October. We have now been given an essay containing general reflections and, yesterday evening, a summary containing little detail. However, we have still not been given a proper catalogue of laws. The Commission should present its annual programme, stating its proposed legal base for this, so that, in the case of each proposal, we can adopt a position on whether the Commission is respecting the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality. That is not only a right we possess. It is a duty imposed by the Treaty on each individual institution. All the institutions must ensure that the EU does not adopt rules which the Member States can devise just as well or better. We are asking for an independent discussion of the annual programme as it relates to the proximity principle, and we agree with the other groups in criticising the way in which the Commission keeps its plans secret."@en1

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