Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-02-18-Speech-1-034"
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"en.20080218.19.1-034"2
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"Mr President, transparency must be one of the cornerstones of EU institutions: for this Parliament too, and even more so for the European Commission, where senior officials have immense power, but hardly any political control at all.
Thus I wish to denounce in this House the Commission’s practice of replying to political resolutions of this House through mechanisms similar to the times of the ‘Politburo’ or ‘Kremlinologists’ who analysed documents. I refer, for instance, although this is only one example, to the Minutes of the sitting of 13 December 2007, under the heading ‘Action taken on Parliament's resolutions', where it is stated that a Commission communication on the action taken on a resolution adopted by Parliament had been distributed.
This text, Mr President, is published in English and French, not in all the official Community languages, as SP/207/5401, on a web page it took me three weeks to find with the assistance of secretarial staff and other House officials. Without transparency there can be no democracy; what we have here is hypocrisy in the Commission’s discourse, claiming it has consulted Parliament and subsequently burying its documents and replies on the web without publicising them in any way."@en1
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