Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-09-13-Speech-1-040"
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"Mr President, we are being asked to comment on a 283-page report that was not released until late on Friday morning, and that was produced in two languages. In between there has been a weekend and today most people have spent the whole day travelling to Strasbourg.
We cannot possibly comment in any way at all in such a short space of time. It is not possible for us to have formed any real opinions. For certain, no business would ever operate like this. But perhaps I should not be surprised because it seems to me that in the European Union one is drowned in paper to the level where the European Parliament – and, I am sure, the Council of Ministers – cannot actually read what they are being asked to approve. In this world the bureaucrat most certainly is king.
There are, however, two points that I have picked up: firstly the outgoing Commissioners complained that in practice they were unable to supervise the actions of their most senior officials, namely, their Directors-General. It seems to me unacceptable that the Commissioners can be the executive of the EU without having the responsibility that goes with it. But the real meat of this is Recommendation No. 59 which urges strongly the appointment of a European public prosecutor, which urges strongly a European prosecution office with delegated public prosecutors in Member States to create “an area of freedom, security and justice as laid down in the Treaty”.
The British Government has repeatedly told us that
was merely a discussion document. And yet it would appear that we are at the beginning now of an entirely new legal system just for the sake of a few fraudulent officials. It is quite unacceptable."@en1
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