Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11 Points out that this lack of information also hampers the ability of national parliaments to control the actions of national governments in the Council, and enables members of national governments to distance themselves in the national sphere from decisions made at the European level which they shaped and took themselves; considers it irresponsible on the part of members of national governments to undermine trust in the European Union by ‘blaming Brussels’ for decisions they themselves were involved in; demands an immediate end to this practice; notes that this practice plays into the hands of populist politicians, who seek to delegitimise the EU in the eyes of the public, and was a major contributing factor to the Brexit vote in June 2016;