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The Garcia-Margallo report would set the European Union off on a dangerous path, summarised as follows in the explanatory statement: ‘The main cause for the failure of previous BEPGs and the delay in delivering the results of the Lisbon process is the lack of implementation by Member States, and the non-existent enforcement powers of the Commission’. Thus, for the rapporteur, the solution would be to give the Commission greater powers of enforcement in order to force the states to align themselves with its wishes, in other words to impose unification and opening up of the markets across the board.
That would be a mistake. Moreover, in one particular field – the application of the Stability Pact – the Commission has immense enforcement powers, which include the imposition of fines. However, it is clear that fines are not going to change the reality of the situation.
In actual fact, as I said during the debate, we must question the dogma of unification, which seems to have no more benefits to offer in Europe and to have entered a very dangerous negative area, the area of constraint, of frustrating the citizens and, lastly, it is to be feared, of negating national democracies."@en1
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