Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-11-17-Speech-3-216"
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"Madam President, I am convinced that tomorrow will see us approving the new Commission by a large majority, and that is a good thing, being a fundamental precondition for a strong Commission. On it also depends good cooperation between the two institutions in this legislative period. There are those who have labelled the events of the past few weeks as an institutional crisis; nothing could be further from the truth, and the President-in-Office of the European Council rightly said so this morning. It is not because it is the first time that this would not be normal procedure. It is undoubtedly to Mr Barroso’s credit that he has indeed played the game, and that has put him in a stronger position; it may even make for a stronger Commission.
The President-elect of the Commission did not have an easy time of this, and it is also apparent that we too have a number of lessons to learn from it. This procedure, it is clear, puts the President-elect of the Commission in an uncomfortable position. On the one hand, the Member States allowed him little or no discretion in the choice of Commissioners; on the other, Parliament treats this matter as if he really did have a free choice.
In order to avoid such a situation, the Convention had proposed that each Member State should present three Commissioners, including at least one man and one woman. The elected President would thus be given a real choice and would be able to put together a balanced Commission. The IGC, lamentably, did away with this solution. In the light of our most recent experience, it strikes me as essential that we consider taking this stipulation on board in practice, even if only as an agreement between the institutions. It may well not be set down in the Constitution, but it does not conflict with it either.
I think that we in this House need to evaluate all aspects of the procedure. Mr Duff will be drafting a report on this. This is where it seems to me to be essential that we should safeguard the collegial nature of the Commission, which would be put under strain if Parliament were to approve Commissioners on an individual basis. We must not become a
. We must keep a watchful eye over the balance between the institutions."@en1
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