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"Mr President, this report makes some valid points. It states in the first few paragraphs, I quote: ‘[The European Parliament] stresses that the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality must be respected by the European institutions when legislating’. Unquote.
This is, therefore, my most fundamental comment on this report. First of all, what we need is not the new European treaty announced by Mr Barroso yesterday. No, in reality, what we need is a thorough review of where and how European policy is really useful and necessary and where it is not useful or necessary at all. We also need to look again at how many European institutions, how many European administrations and how many European rules and regulations are really useful and necessary and how many are not useful or necessary. If we did, we would, in my opinion, not just be making huge savings for the taxpayers, but also paying real respect to the principle of subsidiarity, a lot more respect than just treating the symptoms, which is what we seem to have been doomed to so far.
Unfortunately, in reality, we are very far from that union of nation states which Mr Barroso advocated yesterday. One further comment. There seems to be a touch of euphoria about what we know as the ‘yellow card’ procedure. Let us be honest, we have hardly used it. It is merely a stopgap, an opportunity for national parliaments to have their say which, in reality, offers no opportunity at all."@en1
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