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"Madam President, what we have been told here today in the Council declaration is that, for technical reasons, democracy will have to be sacrificed with regard to the European Semester. However, what we are talking about here is a political issue and the question I would ask is as follows: can we have political coordination without democracy? What, in the end, happens to European Parliament scrutiny? What happens to national parliaments’ scrutiny of their own major budgetary choices? However, if the issue were technical, as has been said here, we would then be talking about a variable technique, because, as we know, the Council has substantially eased the conditions for the four countries on the waiting list – France, Italy, Hungary and Spain – in comparison with those for countries that have been bailed out. What model of intergovernmentalism is this, then, that allows Germany to express its opinions about Portugal, but does not allow Portugal to express its opinions about Germany? I ask only that you pay attention to this, Commissioner: no problem of democratic legitimacy can be solved by asking the Members of this House to consult information on the Internet. That is a problem of exclusion from information, not of exclusion from democracy, and that is what we are talking about here."@en1
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