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"Mr President, ten years ago the President of the European Commission said that the European Union was going to stop legislating unnecessarily and withdraw directives in fields that could be left to the Member States. Look at the size of our voting list today. Look at some of the things we are voting on. This is a very good example: controls and activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health, plant reproductive material, plant protection products. We have spent a record time voting. We are having an unprecedented extra voting session this evening to get through this mass of legislation, despite all the promises about doing less and doing it better.
Why do we have this volume of work? It is impossible to repress the suspicion that the authorities in Parliament are worried about the composition of the new Parliament; that, as a result of the European election, there will be a different complexion in this House; there will be people who are opposed to giving more and more powers to the European Union, regardless of the case for doing so. Therefore we have this rush to try and get everything through while there remains a federalist majority in this Chamber. That is an attempt to subvert – or at least to sidestep – the democratic process and I, for one, find it deeply disquieting."@en1
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