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".
Mr President, the Commissioner is of course new to this saga, but unfortunately for many of our constituents, both in the UK and elsewhere, this is a long-running tragedy that, as we have seen, dates back to the 1970s.
If we are honest, and I agree with Mr Medina Ortega about this, we know that whatever we do may not bring a resolution to the many personal cases of loss. We do not want legal proceedings between our institutions for the sake of having legal proceedings, but we do want to do something that enhances the position and standing of Parliament and Europe’s institutions. The central issue here is about how the European Union functions and, more particularly within your area, about how the internal market functions. It is quite simple really: a directive appears not to have been fully and properly implemented over a long period of years. Eventually the Member State comes into compliance 20 years after the event. That just cannot be good enough for Parliament or for Europe. In addition, our Committee on Petitions is often the first point of call. It should be an early warning system, but sometimes, as in this case, it happens after the event.
The Commission should always be on guard to ensure that implementation takes place properly. And if there is a query about implementation it should be prepared, given the current political climate in Europe, to give unequivocal answers.
Parliament has always argued that correspondence regarding possible enforcement proceedings between Member States and the Commission should be shared. It is quite straightforward and I appreciate that your predecessor, Mr Bolkestein, wrote saying that there were reasons for not revealing some of the correspondence. Surely, again in the current political climate, we have a duty to our citizens to get to the bottom of what happens in cases like this and to give them satisfactory answers. Otherwise we have every right to expect the negative responses that we got in France and Holland. If we cannot answer our citizens’ straightforward questions about how we implement EU law, then it is a poor show. I hope, Commissioner, that you will be able to help us more than your predecessor could."@en1
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