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"Mr President, if one reads the Commission’s programme of legislation carefully, one suddenly happens upon a European army: the Rapid Reaction Force. This is to be established in accordance with what has been called the ‘all-purpose article’: the famous Article 235, now Article 308, which is unchanged in the Treaty of Nice. This shows that there is no limit to the EU’s interference in the affairs of the Member States. With so many new countries due to join the EU next year, it would be better for us all to focus on consolidation and simplification of the existing legislation rather than continuing to build the Brussels legislative pyramid higher and higher. This could be done as follows: the Commission should only be permitted to put forward new proposals on condition that the corresponding old legislation is deleted in the process. All new proposals should be presented in their legal context, so that it is possible to compare proposals for new legislation with the existing legislation. No new proposals should be presented unless they are accompanied by proposals regarding the means of consolidation of the existing legislation in the field. This approach would make it possible to reduce the acquis communautaire from more than 85 000 pages to perhaps 25 000 pages.
Having accomplished this, we should strive to simplify binding legislation, transforming it into non-binding recommendations; regulations can be transformed into framework legislation, total harmonisation directives into minimum harmonisation directives, and uniform rules into voluntary rules. Attempts to create a federal state with an ever increasing amount of legislation could be replaced with a decentralised confederation of states, which would allow the Member States a great deal more freedom. This is our vision of the form the Commission’s legislative programme should take. We want a Europe of democracies based on diversity, as we believe that people will be happier if they can determine their own affairs as far as possible without interference and free from detailed rules drawn up by bureaucrats and lobbyists in Brussels."@en1
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