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"Mr President, Mr Barroso, Mr Van Rompuy, you are right, the Commission must be the Union’s economic government.
In fact, it already is in that it dictates the conduct of Member State governments in budgetary matters and also increasingly in other areas such as in social affairs.
What is not right is that political choices governing these recommendations are made behind closed doors between the Council and the Commission. The only concession you are willing to make is for the European Parliament to be kept ‘informed’. Do not think for one minute that national parliaments are consulted any more, because of what Mrs Merkel does at every turn when she consults the Bundestag. How many Heads of State or Government do the same with their parliament?
What we are saying, is that there can be no federal economic governance in Europe unless these major guidelines are adopted under codecision with the European Parliament and unless they are translated to the Member States under codecision with national parliaments.
Taking short-cuts with democracy is the surest way of weakening it. There are plenty of people in Europe hoping that will happen, our citizens will not put up with it."@en1
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