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"en.20120329.36.4-335-000"2
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"The end of Question Time with the Council (which has already happened in practice), as it was conceived, is a result of the changes introduced by the Lisbon Treaty. What is now being proposed is the creation of a new specific question hour on matters relating to responsibilities other than those linked to the exercise of its budgetary and legislative functions. The institutional changes introduced by the Lisbon Treaty, which are frequently praised for strengthening Parliament’s powers, have, in fact, resulted in a weakening of the national parliaments and legislative power structures that are closer to the people and over which they have better control. The national parliaments have, in fact, been relegated to the secondary role of prior supervision of the subsidiarity principle in the European law-making process. The Portuguese Parliament has lost the power to make its own decisions in fundamental areas, and only its participation as an advisory body has increased, but without the right to veto EU decisions with which it disagrees. It is only in highly theoretical and exceptional cases (which have never actually occurred), and only in conjunction with other national parliaments, that it is able to make matters somewhat difficult for the Commission by delaying the legislative process."@en1
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