13 Amendments of György SCHÖPFLIN related to 2013/2185(INI)
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas democratic legitimacy, transparency and accountability must be ensured at the level at which decisions are taken and implemented, and also in their mutual interactions;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the European Parliament and the national parliaments are, in their respective spheres, the pillars of the Union’s two-fold legitimacy, the former as the institution in which EU citizens are directly represented and the latter as the national institutions to which the governments represented in the Council are directly accountable, and, equally, recognising that this is a reciprocal relationship that imposes obligations on the European Parliament to seek the views of national parliaments on a regular basis;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S
Recital S
S. whereas although the national parliaments’ role and contribution are clear under the new institutional set-up stemming from the Lisbon Treaty, the new provisions have been implemented in the absence of a clear overall institutional vision;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T
Recital T
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas, almost five years after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, with a view to future Conventions, rel a reflection is needed on the experience drawn from the different forms of cooperations between the European Parliament and the national parliaments now need be consolidated and properly organised in order to avoid duplication and to help to giwith a view to giving ever greater democratic legitimacy to the European integration process, as well as to ensureing that democratic scrutiny is exercised in a timely manner and at the level at which decisions are taken and implemented and that everyone all parties in the legislative process receive the information they require;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U a (new)
Recital U a (new)
Ua. whereas this reflection should be carried out after the forthcoming European elections, in close cooperation with national parliaments
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Views interparliamentary meetings as places where EU policies and national policies come together and feed off each other, to the benefit of both; believes that a key function of such meetings is to allow national parliaments to take account of the European perspective in national debates, and the European Parliament to take account of the national perspective in European debates; reiterates that the aim of such cooperation is not to form a new joint parliamentary body for inclusion in the Union’s current decision-making set- up, as this would be both ineffective and undemocratic and unconstitutional;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Draws attention the fact that the novel European interparliamentary system that isis still in the process of taking shape is in need of a legal framework and of more formal procedures, to be established jointly with the national parliaments, in order to move forward with the process of ‘parliamentarising’ the European Union and consolidate the multitier parliamentary system; takes the view therefore that any attempt to devise a common framework for all types of interparliamentary cooperation is premature;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24