Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-04-Speech-3-170"
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"I will confine myself to saying that I am as exercised by Montesquieu’s theories on the separation of powers as the honourable Member is. I am, as it happens, a political scientist by training and think that it is absolutely fundamental that we should keep this separation of powers in mind. I said this as recently as yesterday, when I represented the Presidency in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs here in Parliament. With the best will in the world, I cannot, however, see the Council’s efforts to reform itself as being in conflict with Montesquieu’s theories on the separation of powers, and I cannot see that the Council has taken powers or in any way hampered the Commission. As a matter of form, I would like to report what I said on behalf of the Danish Government in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs yesterday, that is that the Danish Government is an ardent adherent of the Community method and does not want the Council to take powers from the Commission. That is what was said – but it was as a Danish Minister that I added this."@en1
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