Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2015-09-08-Speech-2-318-000"
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"Mr President, I am delighted that my proposals to make an already good procedure still better and more incisive managed to obtain such a wide level of support and a large majority in this Parliament just now. Those who still claim that the European Union is undemocratic should take heed of this. This is yet another little step in improving democratic accountability in the EU. Already we now have a situation where no – or virtually no – legislation can be adopted at European level without the approval of the European Parliament. No budget, no financial framework, no international agreement of any significance can come into force without this Parliament approving it. What is more, no president of the Commission can be chosen without being elected by this Parliament and, as we know, the Commission as a whole requires a vote of confidence from this Parliament.
But what this report was about was that very last point: the vote of confidence. Before that vote of confidence we have a public hearing with rigorous questioning of every candidate Commissioner. I would love to see that applied at national level to ministers when they take office. Imagine if national parliaments required every candidate minister before they took office to be subject to a public grilling for three hours. I think it would be revealing. We do that here with regard to European Commissioners and, on this front at least, we are at the cutting edge of improving democratic accountability."@en1
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