Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-09-13-Speech-4-218-375"
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"I supported the ‘Better Legislation’ resolution because we are living in a state of emergency – a crisis of democratic legitimacy, which risks exploding if citizens’ active participation in decision making is lost. Better legislation means that the laws passed by this House need to be clear, simple, easy to understand and accessible to all; they must represent those who have elected us, not a compromise among external parties. Better legislation also means institutional respect for the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, which are basic principles of the EU Treaties and a guarantee of national and popular sovereignty. Faced with opinions from national parliaments in which justifications for subsidiarity are sometimes inadequate or absent, I welcome the closer involvement of national parliaments in the European legislative process, particularly with regard to scrutinising legislative proposals in the light of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, because this is consonant with the legitimate appeal against the Commission and the Council made by national parliaments for the first time on 22 May 2012 through the ‘yellow card’ procedure on the freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide services. Let us continue in this vein in the hope that the Commission will genuinely reduce its regulatory burden in its 2013 Work Programme."@en1
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