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"Mr President, thank you very much for allowing me to speak again. Commissioners, firstly, I would like to thank Mr Simon for taking a cross-party approach and, above all, for his great commitment to his report. He has succeeded in framing a demand that the Commission should present a communication containing specific measures by the end of 2011.
This brings me to the drawback that Mr Simon has also already mentioned. Of course Parliament must also be included in the legislative process according to Article 14. The Commission is constantly calling for transparency from all participants in the process, while itself endeavouring to use its political clout to rush through its opinions in the policy-making processes. The fact is, however, that Europe operates on a grass-roots basis, taking its cue from local and regional authorities. It is therefore very surprising to find that the people in the regions and the local decision makers are often pointedly attacked and marginalised by the policies pursued by the Commission.
This Community framework meddles in the authority of the Member States to define and organise their own parameters. It is for this reason that I wish to draw attention to the principle of ‘united in diversity’ that operates within the European Union and to call on the Commission to pay a little more attention to Article 14 and to the options that this permits."@en1
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