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The EU-USA agreements on judicial cooperation in criminal matters and extradition are entirely necessary, especially in the fight against terrorism. However, they raise for the first time the question of the interpretation of Articles 38 and 24 of the EU Treaty, introduced by the Treaty of Nice, concerning the conclusion of international agreements by the European Union in the fields of the second and third pillars.
Those articles were drawn up and adopted with culpable negligence despite the warnings I gave in my counter-report on the Treaty of Nice. We are seeing the consequences of that today: the national parliaments used to have the right to ratify such international agreements, but they have lost that right today and the European Parliament for its part has gained no equivalent right.
It is true that the States are now trying to find a national power of scrutiny by way of the ‘constitutional reservation’ that may enable them to go back to their national parliaments. But that is far from being a perfect solution.
We see here the consequences of badly negotiated treaties. The Convention on the future of Europe ought to correct that and bring the national parliaments back into play. Unfortunately, it seems to want to go in the opposite direction."@en1
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