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"I voted against the MacCormick report for the reasons given in my minority opinion appended to it: the ‘contracts’ or ‘target-based tripartite agreements’ are nothing other than a war machine deployed by the Commission against the Member States in order to bypass them by establishing direct links between Brussels and regional authorities.
This innovation will, in its own small way, be part of the vast enterprise of ‘unravelling’ the Member States, led by the Commission and federalist
pressure groups. This enterprise seeks systematically to destroy an age-old creation, the diminishment of which will in future leave people helpless before a European power that is badly controlled.
The European Parliament report, despite its faults, does at times seem to see the dangers of the new system and is alarmed by them. It calls for tripartite contracts to remain the exceptions, so as not to ‘give rise to extreme complexity and in practice undermine … [the] normative purpose [of the administration of the law]’ (paragraph 8), and so as not to favour Member States’ deflecting responsibility (paragraph 14).
In order to better avoid these dangers it would, however, have been preferable if the European Parliament had not itself approved their causes"@en1
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