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"Mr President, since I only have one minute in which to speak, I shall be very forthright. We shall not be approving the Lamassoure report, for two main reasons. Firstly, it hardly touches the question, which to us is all-important, of the democratic control of competences. There is nothing about the control of subsidiarity by national democracies, and nothing, or almost nothing, on the exercise of European competences by national parliaments, in particular by the creation of an inter-parliamentary pillar. Secondly, this report deals with the division of competences from an abstract technical angle, without ever mentioning the sovereignty of national democracies. This abstract technical bias leads to erroneous federalist solutions which have a negative effect on democracy.
This is why the SOS Democracy Members have submitted a minority opinion which is attached to the report. This is also why the French MPF Members have drawn up a counter-report in the form of replies to the Convention’s questionnaire on the tasks of the Union, ‘Europe – what for?’. This counter-report will be distributed by e-mail to all Members of Parliament, to the Members of the Convention and to anyone who asks for it."@en1
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