Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-12-13-Speech-2-065"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Commission's legislative and work programme (2006) (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051213.7.2-065"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-12-13-Speech-2-0662
lpv:speaker	lp:Frank Vanhecke2
lpv:spokenAs	member; NA (2004-07-20--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Vlaams Belang (2004-11-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DEVE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; LIBE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, whilst the Commission talks in its programme about, and I quote, ‘closing the communication gap’ and, and I quote again, ‘strengthening the democratic foundations of the European project’, in practice, we have to conclude that all of this remains theory and that this selfsame Commission very often pursues a policy that is fundamentally undemocratic. The way in which the accession negotiations with Turkey are being rammed down the European public’s throat, despite their lack of any democratic legitimacy whatever, is a case in point. By way of a second example, it is striking how the Commission rejects the common initiative of members of national parliaments right across the European Union in favour of the systematic testing of legislative proposals by reference to the subsidiarity principle. The Commission regards this system as comparable to nothing other than the familiar yellow-card system for which the European Constitution provided. Consequently, the Commission says that that system, together with the European Constitution, has died a quiet death and that we no longer need to concern ourselves with it. When it does suit the Commission, though, other documents of the former European Constitution secretly resurface and are even made legally binding. Accordingly, the regulation on the Fundamental Rights Agency states that this institution is competent to apply the Charter of Fundamental Rights and that Member States must respect those fundamental rights when EU law is applied. This strange Charter of Fundamental Rights is a kind of Bon Marché or Ikea catalogue that entitles everything and everyone to all manner of things, which makes it a particularly dangerous vehicle. It ought, ordinarily, to have been buried along with the European Constitution, but instead, and by a secret route, the Commission has made it binding. If the Commission would like to do more than pay lip service to strengthening democracy, it will need to fundamentally change its working practices."@en1

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