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"All opinion polls repeatedly reveal a sense of mistrust towards the European Union. One of the main reasons for this is the distance between European Union decision-makers and the people of Europe. People do not know who does what or who makes decisions and on whose behalf. It is the civic and democratic relationship that we must do everything to repair. The European elections in 2014, a key opportunity for the people of the European Union to exercise their right of democratic expression, will be decisive from this point of view. For as crucial as European Union integration is, it is unthinkable without a real and powerful democratic counterweight. European democracy is, first and foremost, the fairest representation of opinions by means of proportional voting. Next it is gender parity as an overriding principle. It is also decisive innovation: the recommendation, adopted by Parliament, that European political parties should nominate a candidate to stand for Commission President. These candidates would campaign on the basis of specific proposals and therefore lend a face to European politics. In representative democracy, it is citizens who take decisions through their representatives. Involving them in the choice of Commissioners will satisfy fully this founding principle."@en1
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