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The rapporteur calls for the right, for the European Parliament, to have access to documents on security and defence that are classified as ‘confidential’, ‘secret’ or ‘top secret’ whilst pointing out that ‘public access may be refused’ to these documents, which are therefore kept from the people of the European Union, whereas the latter claims to ensure their defence and their security. This only serves to highlight the derisory nature of this claim and the hypocrisy of the European institutions which never fail to take an opportunity to boast about the so-called ‘transparency’ of their work.
As for knowing whether the agreement between the Council, the Commission and the European Parliament (which, in any case, excludes ‘top secret’ documents) would even enable a few hand-picked Members to have access to other documents on security and defence, the rapporteur states that ‘the manner in which this Agreement is used in practice will be decisive’. Clearly, for security and defence issues, as for all other subjects considered to be of some importance by the Council and the Commission, these two institutions only provide the European Parliament with as much information as they wish. This will only come as a surprise to those who believe that the European Parliament has a role other than that of offering a ‘democratic’ smokescreen to policies which are dictated by the interests of the ruling classes and are completely unmonitored.
We shall vote against this report and the accompanying proposal for a decision."@en1
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