Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-05-16-Speech-2-180"
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"It is excellent that useless and harmful legislative texts that contradict other Community provisions or that, above all, are incompatible with the much touted principles of subsidiarity and proportionality can be withdrawn from the legislative world. Any satisfaction that might be felt evaporates quickly, however, faced with a description of the exorbitant legislative powers wielded by the Commission. This institution – which, I would take this opportunity to point out, has absolutely no democratic or electoral legitimacy – can, as and when it sees fit, withdraw or modify a legislative proposal, inform or not inform Parliament of the reasons for its decision and take account, or not take account, of Parliament’s opinion. In short, it can do what it wishes.
Worst of all, Parliament is happy with this state of affairs, which it acknowledges. Admittedly, it vaguely threatens to censure the Commission in cases where the latter might genuinely go too far. We know, however, that, even at the worst moments of the scandals that tarnished the Santer Commission, it has never had the political courage to disown the institution symbolic of the European superstate. The fact that a technocracy is exercised with the tacit agreement of a parliamentary assembly does not change the nature of that technocracy."@en1
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