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"en.20080923.41.2-439"2
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"Mr President, the European Parliament is represented before the Court by its President and, in controversial cases, the President first consults the plenary. This is what happens with proceedings. The new report extends this system to other procedural acts where the President represents Parliament and, in controversial situations, consults the plenary. Yet there is something new in the report in the way it brings in the Conference of Presidents as an intermediary decision-making body between the President and the plenary. This solution is not problematic in itself, yet it would be good to take this opportunity to stress that the European Parliament must never lose sight of the traditional parliamentary principle of concentrating all final decision-making power in the plenary. The plenary is sovereign in all things, as it embodies the legitimacy arising from the ethics of representation.
It is true that institutions that govern complex and broad areas, as the European Parliament does, often cannot avoid the temptation to surround their own democratic power with red tape. This temptation is often impossible to avoid, yet the fact remains that we have to steer clear of wrapping democracy in too much red tape, as the efficacy of good governance must never mean losing the space for politics, still less abdicating space for politics to quasi-administrative forms such as committees and, sometimes, conferences. This is because, to borrow Mirabeau’s expression, these are not a real ‘cross-section of the population’."@en1
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