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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I said that the crisis currently affecting the euro is not exclusively economic but is rather a political crisis based on the growing contradiction between the fact that the national dimension prevails in politics yet the policies needed to face the crisis are European.
This resolution aims to bring about a reform that does not require changes to the Treaties or secondary legislation. It is an important political and institutional reform because it uses the mechanism of nominating a candidate for Commission Presidency based on the model of parliamentary regimes, although we are obviously not dealing with a direct election. Nomination is by the European parliamentary parties, recognised by and present in the Treaties. We are therefore applying the spirit and the letter of the Treaties, which state that the President of the Commission is elected by Parliament and that the appointment of the President should take into account the result of the EP elections. At the same time, we are introducing a reform allowing the citizens to participate directly in choosing the political government of Europe. This brings genuine democratic legitimacy, based on a real European political sphere for the European institutions, which is a precondition for the effectiveness of their actions of government, as well as for their democratic legitimacy.
On the other hand, this reform does not, in my opinion, contradict the independence of the Commission. This is because Article 17 of the Treaty of Lisbon on the independence of the Commission refers both to the fact that the Council should propose a candidate, acting by qualified majority, and that the proposal should take account of the results of the elections to the European Parliament, clearly demonstrating, as is the case in ordinary democratic regimes, that the democratic legitimacy of a governing body does not necessarily conflict with its independence.
The question here is one of democratisation and politicisation, in order to strengthen the action of the Commission and, overall, to build a more legitimate, stronger European Union that is closer to its citizens and therefore more capable of providing a response to the extraordinary crisis that we are experiencing. Indeed, with reforms such as this, the crisis might well be the opportunity to take another step on the road to a political Europe."@en1
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