Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-18-Speech-3-161"
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"Mr President, I apologise for my tardiness in getting up to speak. I was applauding the previous speaker who made a very valuable conclusion to his speech.
My comments are also relevant to the Chichester report, so I think I will take the comments together rather than asking for two separate speaking times. In some ways this report may highlight one of the potential flaws in the thinking of the Eurocrats and people who quite often sit in this House, namely that, whatever the problem, Europe has to be the solution. Of course I welcome an agency of European regulators where national regulators are working together, but let us not forget that quite often the regulators who are best placed to understand local circumstances are national regulators.
Let us not allow this body to become a European super-regulator. Let us make sure that the regulator understands local nuances and is truly accountable to local people. If we were accountable to local people, then they would have the opportunity to vote against the Constitution."@en1
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