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"Other Members from various political groups have now reacted strongly to the Council’s decision not to include the European Parliament in the decision-making process with regard to the Schengen
. This is yet again a woeful example of how attempts are being made to trample underfoot the powers granted to Parliament.
At present, the Committee on Culture and Education is debating the Europe for Citizens Programme, and there is a similar dispute about the legal basis going on in this connection. According to the Commission and the Council, Parliament has no say in what the programme should consist of, although this is an initiative that relates very closely to ordinary people. It is indeed strange that an institution that is elected by means of direct democratic elections and which represents 500 million Europeans should not be able to decide on the content of decisions that affect Europeans.
Now the same thing is happening with Schengen. Free mobility is one of the EU’s greatest achievements and one of the most tangible rights of the EU citizen. I am astonished that the Council wants to strip Parliament of the role which the very same Member States granted it at Lisbon. The dangers connected with all this are a weakening of the rights of the individual, a deterioration in democratic principles, and a decline in cooperation between Parliament and the Council in the future. The Council has adopted an anti-European stance."@en1
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