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"Mr President, the Commission has broken a clear pledge to present a full annual programme, setting out all proposed legislation and its legal bases. As yet, we have received details of only a small selection of the laws and regulations produced by the Commission. We have not been given precise information about the legal bases, so we cannot see whether the Commission is proposing voluntary coordination or binding rules. It is difficult to debate strategic guidelines in the dark. Does the Commission want more power, centralism and Byzantine regulation, or does it want to inspire the Member States to pull together in the interests of job creation and to encourage countries to compete in doing things as best they can?
The Independence and Democracy Group wants greater freedom for the Member States and less power centralised in Brussels. The Commission must be open with people. Tell us who is giving good advice in your 3 000 secret working parties. Let us see what is behind the advice. Tell us how you use taxpayers’ money. Give the EU’s auditors, the ombudsman and the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control full access to investigate all expenditure. Put your mail on the Internet so that we can study all approaches from lobbyists. Show some confidence in people. Give us the information we request, unless there is, exceptionally, a sound argument for excluding public discussion.
May I also thank the President for quoting Montesquieu. He too was in favour of the threefold division of power, although not in a way that corresponds fully to the Commission’s mix of legislative, executive and judicial powers. It seems to me that Machiavelli was more of an inspiration than Montesquieu when the Commission’s powers were designed."@en1
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