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"The European Union includes 29 agencies, veritable European micro-institutions whose cost comes to more than EUR 1 billion and whose usefulness is subject to caution. The rapporteur is thus right to demand more transparency and more responsibility in managing these numerous agencies, true political control over their activity, evaluation of those that already exist, a moratorium on the creation of new agencies and a ‘cost-advantage’ analysis before any decision is taken.
However, the true problem is the very existence of these agencies, additional layers of European bureaucracy, some of which have a regulatory power and others executive functions that interfere with the work of the national authorities when they do not complicate it. The true problem is their proliferation and the fact that they are spreading throughout Europe, their seats being handed out like vote-catching presents. The true problem is that 40 % of them are founded by virtue of Article 308 of the Treaty, that famous article that makes it possible to increase the competencies of Brussels when they are not expressly provided for by the laws and regulations.
Since this report resolves nothing, we are unable to approve it. However, since it is, even so, an attempt to put a bit of order into this jumble, we cannot reject it. For this reason, we shall abstain."@en1
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