Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-02-06-Speech-3-155"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, judging by the results of the latest Eurobarometer, the people of Europe have more trust in their police force than in their parliaments. This is an alarming sign, which should compel the people’s elected representatives to work together to eliminate the reasons for this. The legitimacy of democratic regimes is at stake.
It is up to the MPs of each Member State to reduce the democratic deficits that are appearing at national level, and which also exist at this level. In the report before us today, MEPs are being called on to examine how the role played by the national parliaments in European integration could be strengthened. Not to the detriment of the role of the European Parliament, but to complement it.
Mr Napolitano, the rapporteur, is proposing a number of specific measures which have been approved by the Group of the Party of European Socialists and which could, in my view, easily receive the unanimous approval of the Convention. Mr Napolitano quite rightly calls for the powers of the national parliament vis-à-vis their respective governments to be strengthened, prior to decisions being taken in the Council.
In some of our Member States, the procedure of influencing decisions is well organised. In other States, it does not even exist in embryonic form. To put it simply, the national parliaments let their government get on with things and complain afterwards.
The rapporteur, quite rightly, also rules out the idea of a second or even a third legislative chamber. A new institution such as this falls at the stumbling block posed by the question ‘why set up a new institution?’
If we ‘institutionalise’ the Convention with the participation of the national parliaments, this is another way of exerting a much-needed influence at the preparatory stage of the extensive reforms. It is clear that the method advocated by the European Parliament must henceforth be used to reform the Treaty and it could even go beyond constitutional matters. For example, why not call a convention to prepare the next European Union multi-annual financial programme? If this financial envelope must incorporate a new specific resource in the form of a European tax, I think it is essential that the representatives of the national parliaments deliberate it from the outset."@en1
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