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"en.20120523.15.3-337-750"2
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"This report seeks to establish conditions for strengthening the exercise of Parliament’s right of inquiry. The Treaty of Lisbon enhanced Parliament’s powers and reduced the competences of the sovereign national institutions. Parliament’s enhanced right of inquiry neither strengthens its legitimacy nor ensures the integrity with which it should be associated. The investigation of ‘alleged contraventions or maladministration in the implementation of Community law’ by Parliament, an institution whose numbers reveal the extent to which it is dominated by the major powers, is doomed from the outset to serve the interests of those same powers. We cannot support strengthening Parliament’s power of ‘investigation’, in other words, of interference, forcing sovereign states to submit documents, summoning witnesses, and hearing officials and other EU and Member State civil servants. Citizens and Member States are obliged to grant Parliament access to documents that it deems ‘pertinent’, while Parliament is able to decide on appropriate sanctions to be applied by the Member States. Although the report is in favour of the separation of the political and judicial powers, there is obvious confusion and that does not make Parliament more democratic."@en1
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