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"en.20040309.6.2-159"2
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"Parliament seems to be ignoring the three appeals concerning this procedure brought by different political groupings. They contested the legality of the Regulation governing the statute and the funding of political parties at European level.
Parliament should remember that the existence of these parties is far from being established, and that this regulation violates many principles, among them the principle of equality, the principle of freedom of thought and of conscience, the principle of democracy, and the principles of the separation of powers, political pluralism and subsidiarity.
Firstly, this new system will allow the funding for such parties to be withheld not on objective criteria but on criteria based on teleology and political purpose. In requiring the parties to observe ‘the principles upon which the European Union is founded’, parties which do not subscribe to a particular European doctrine will be barred from receiving any funding. Furthermore, this control is initiated and operated by Parliament itself. It cannot be a judge and a party at the same time. This new system will also lead to many different kinds of discrimination. In effect, by imposing very high requirements for the formation of a European political party, the aim is to exclude new groups
. In this regulation, the usual legal approach has been swept aside for an entirely arbitrary one. Does Parliament want to make a stand for democracy? If so, I call on it to counter all threats to political pluralism."@en1
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