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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, let me first thank Mr Leichtfried for this document. It is important because it provides better definition of the interinstitutional relations between Parliament and the Commission on an extremely sensitive question: Parliament’s powers have been extended in the area of trade, which was not part its competences under the ordinary legislative procedure. There is therefore a fundamental problem, not with the Regulations we are amending today, which are being adapted to a new regime, but in terms of the relations between the European Parliament and the Commission.
In this regard, although I welcome Mr Leichtfried’s report, I am not at all pleased with the views expressed by the Commissioner in this House. The relationship between Parliament and the Commission is still overly technical. There is an evident and continuous effort by the Commission and the Council to reduce relations with the European Parliament to their pre-Lisbon level and we cannot allow this to happen.
Limiting the powers of the Commission is an important step that should result in more parliamentary control and make the Commission act in a more focused manner. Only in this way can we respond to the problems raised by Mr Salvini: I completely agree that the EU’s exclusive competence in the area of trade policy should be maintained, and that the EU’s power should be increased over that of the individual Member States. However, we must also be stronger within the World Trade Organisation, in the knowledge that unless we pay more attention to the real economy, we will never emerge from the current crisis."@en1
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