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"The 2000 and 2001 Commission reports on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality are distressing. They reveal a limited view of subsidiarity, which should never call into question the Community
which should not oppose the Commission’s projects and which should not, above all, be decided by national parliaments.
The reduction of the number of Community texts which the Commission has planned since 1990 is just the mechanical consequence of the final stages of the implementation of the Single European Act. However, subsidiarity continues to be constantly violated today.
Currently, the Court of Justice, that is a Community institution not controlled by the people, is the ultimate judge of subsidiarity, usually in agreement with the Commission. The Convention on the Future of Europe currently sitting would like to strengthen this role. We do not agree.
As I have already said in my ‘Contribution on subsidiarity’ which I submitted in 1995 to what was then the Parliamentary Committee on Institutional Affairs, the whole idea of subsidiarity is that national parliaments make decisions freely. It is the people who ratified the Treaty. It is the people who should decide its limits."@en1
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