Seanad debates

Thursday, 10 October 2002

Address by President of the European Parliament.

 

As President of the European Parliament, I believe it is possible, feasible and desirable that the European Commission's annual legislative programme should not only be discussed by the European Parliament but should be transmitted in sufficient time to national parliaments to allow them to express views on the nature of a proposed package and any concerns they have. There is active consideration as to whether, in order to protect subsidiarity, because it is floating like a balloon today and is not tied down, a national parliament should be given the right to go to the European Court of Justice if it believes some clauses of EU law go further than EU transnationality requires. That is not a settled debate but an active one.

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