Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-03-09-Speech-3-388-625"
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"en.20160309.27.3-388-625"2
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"I voted against the interinstitutional agreement on Better Regulation as it was a missed opportunity to open up the legislative process to scrutiny. After all, consultation, evaluation and transparency are what better regulation should be about, not deregulation which suits only corporate interests.
It must be remembered that Brussels is second only to Washington DC in terms of paid professionals attempting to either influence public policy or political decisions. The EU capital has an estimated 30 000 lobbyists. This is not accidental; it is a concerted effort to retain power and to remove political and economic decisions from democratic debate and influence and thus from the hands of citizens.
In a modern democracy, there is no reason why the decision-making process cannot be both efficient and transparent. That is the crux of the issue: the EU is fundamentally undemocratic and it is not concerned with efficiency, it is deregulation that they are concerned with, and efficiency is used to conceal the agenda of financial deregulation."@en1
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