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I voted against the Wallis report on ‘Better Lawmaking’ in protest against an attitude that is sadly widespread: that of issuing, as here, fine words about the need to respect subsidiarity, while elsewhere approving texts that brazenly violate it.
During this session, for example, the European Parliament has just adopted a resolution on the Spring Council calling for better ‘economic governance’ at European level, which means more centralisation of economic policies whereas these must remain a national competence. Similarly, in the two previous sessions this House called for a ‘European legal framework’ for services of general interest, which will legitimise unjustified interference by the Commission in the running of national and local public services.
The Wallis report also supports the idea of an ‘early warning’ system, as proposed in the draft Constitution, which allows national parliaments to bring violations of subsidiarity to the attention of the Brussels institutions. But it is window-dressing because it gives the national parliaments no real power of opposition. Moreover, the Wallis report seeks to extend this to regional assemblies, which would be perverse because it would establish a direct link between Brussels and the regions, bypassing the States."@en1
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