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"We voted in favour of Amendment No 21, and more specifically paragraph 3, of the report because we agree with the rapporteur that the European Parliament and the national parliaments within their respective areas represent the people of the EU. However, we do not believe that increased parliamentarisation of the EU requires the European Parliament’s powers to be extended where
. It is important to remember that intergovernmental cooperation takes place between governments controlled by the national parliaments, which also demand accountability.
We voted in favour of paragraph 7 of the report because we agree in principle with the rapporteur’s view that it would be an unfortunate development if the governments were to go overboard in developing new instruments for exercising power that exclude the parliaments’ influence. At the same time, we would emphasise that – in spite of its being insufficiently rooted in parliamentary procedure – the open coordination method has been, and remains, a successful and welcome method of achieving increased integration, cooperation and results in areas not considered suitable for more supranational forms of decision-making.
We voted in favour of paragraph 8 of the report because we agree with the rapporteur that it cannot be regarded as legitimate – in terms either of the practicalities or of providing representation – for MEPs to have a double mandate, that is to say with seats in both the European Parliament and a national/regional parliament. Where seats in regional parliaments are concerned, we are nonetheless proceeding on the basis that the rapporteur is referring to such parliaments as have independent legislative power and not to such parliaments as have delegated decision-making power, such as the Swedish county councils. It should be possible reasonably to combine a seat in the latter type of parliament with a seat in the European Parliament."@en1
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