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"en.20111115.27.2-261-000"2
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"Madam President, I voted in favour of this report, but I am nevertheless taking the floor because I believe that the whole issue should be seen in a wider context. Once again in this area, we politicians, who are democratically elected, are being pulled around the circus ring by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. We find that the Court has once again issued a ruling, most recently in the Altmark case, that means that we – as a reaction to what the Court in Luxembourg has said – ought to amend the rules. It ought to be the case in a democracy that it is the politicians that sit at the head of the table, not the officials. I think that we should have a debate on how, in principle, we can restructure the system so that, to a greater extent, it is we elected representatives that make the rules, instead of us simply rushing around afterwards to follow the rules laid down by the judges in Luxembourg – with good intentions, I am sure, but without being democratically elected. In other words, I think that this matter raises a question of principle with regard to how the rules – particularly those in the area of health – come into being."@en1
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