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"Mr President, Mr von Wogau has submitted an excellent report. Nevertheless, Mr Prodi’s answer is not totally satisfactory, because Mr Prodi was still vague on the crucial point, namely that of equal rights between the Council and Parliament.
Mr Prodi tells us that the Commission is declaring its political will to work towards a situation where Parliament enjoys equal treatment. Equal with whom and equal to what? Commissioner Bolkestein told us that we must not discuss the sex of angels, but that ‘equivalence’ obviously means equivalence between Parliament and the Council. At the same time, however, Mr Bolkestein is warning us that the Commission cannot guarantee us this equivalence. Why did Mr Prodi not use these simple words, namely ‘equal treatment with the Council’?
Mr President, I am the European Parliament’s rapporteur on the market abuse directive. I must now table an amendment, therefore, laying down in substance that the Commission will be permitted to make technical amendments to this directive and that Parliament will have three months in which to respond. If, within this time, Parliament has not adopted a resolution stating that the proposed technical amendments go beyond the executing powers specified in the directive, the Commission will stop its measures. So far, so good! If this does not happen, I will have to write ‘the Commission will work towards a situation where Parliament enjoys equal treatment’.
Mr President, who are you trying to fool? Can you really propose this sort of text to Parliament? I think that the Commission must make a commitment to show respect for the resolutions adopted by Parliament. That, Mr President, is democracy – pure and simple."@en1
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