Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-05-23-Speech-3-337-062"
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"en.20120523.15.3-337-062"2
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"This should be an exclusive domestic competence of Member State governments only, enabling national Parliaments to summon relevant witnesses to examine alleged breaches of EU law. Drawing up sanctions for any who refuse to cooperate with investigation, organising committees to scrutinise evidence and documentation from both EU and national bodies in order to enforce the proper application of EU law, and giving committees of inquiry the legal power to subpoena witnesses, including Member State officials, is chilling in its megalomaniacal scope for a supranational organisation created and established by vote solely as a free trade bloc. While the EP already has a power to conduct an inquiry, it is rarely exercised. This proposal significantly augments Parliament’s power, theoretically even enabling it to call upon nation state Ministers, including the Prime Minister or President, to be summoned as witnesses. In wording, it even renders the Monarchy culpable to Parliamentary scrutiny. By what perceived right does the European Union believe it should honour itself with such ominous, technocratic powers and by what democratic vehicle could it possibly seek to establish them?"@en1
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