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Having granted discharge to the Commission and to itself for the implementation of the budget for the 2000 financial year, the European Parliament has just referred back to committee the report on the Council’s discharge. This represents a break with the traditional gentlemen’s agreement, whereby the Council turns a blind eye to Parliament’s budget – even when Parliament introduced federalist elements into the documents by including, for example, a heading for the funding of European political parties – and Parliament, in return, hardly looked at the Council budget – which, in any case, seems more natural, given that the Council has superior powers within the Union.
Today, the European Parliament is reneging on this agreement with a vengeance. The official reason given is that the Council did not provide the Committee on Budgetary Control with sufficiently detailed explanations regarding the use of funds granted to the common foreign and security policy. This is merely a pretext, however. The Council has sole responsibility for the CFSP.
In reality, the European Parliament has convinced itself, over recent years, that it holds the greatest legitimacy in the Union, and it is pointing this out to the Council. The Council must wake up and take this matter onboard since the Convention which is going to discuss the future of the Union is about to begin."@en1
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