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"Mr President, Mr Napolitano has written a sound report on one of the most sensitive themes of the forthcoming Convention, namely the relationship between the European Parliament and national parliaments. This topic is sensitive because national parliaments increasingly have the impression that competences are being taken away from them and given to the European Parliament. And if we are being honest, that is true to a certain extent. Since the transfer of a number of tasks of the Member States to the European Union, especially in the last ten to twenty years, and since the introduction of the codecision procedure – in other words since co-legislative powers were granted to Parliament – competences have indeed been transferred. However, this does not mean that national parliaments no longer have any important tasks to fulfil. Paragraph 1 of the resolution is explicit on this score. National parliaments must guide their Ministers in the Council. In addition, they must check up on their Ministers when they leave the Council, they must ensure that the European directives and regulations are implemented correctly, and they must also ensure that European programmes are executed correctly, both in terms of content and in terms of finance. If this is not done properly – as we see it is not in my country in the European Social Fund
the European Commission will be claiming back hundreds of millions of guilders. In that case, national parliaments have not carried out their work properly either.
In my opinion, the distribution of the competences between national parliaments and the European Parliament should not become the most important point of discussion in the Convention. As Mrs Schleicher has already indicated, particular attention must be paid to the points on which national parliaments have lost competences which have not been passed on to the European Parliament. After all, that is where the democratic loophole is, and this is where we should mainly focus our activities in the Convention. We must check this very carefully, and we must ensure once again that these competences are returned either to national parliaments or to the European Parliament. Indeed, this translates, in my view, into the parliamentarisation and democratisation of the European Union, rather than to a situation in which matters which really belong with the parliaments are left to the Council."@en1
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