1 Amendments of Nirj DEVA related to 2008/2120(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the Lisbon Treaty opens the way to incorporate the European Development Fund (EDF) in the General Budget of the European Union, without the need for a revision of the Lisbon Treaty; strongly believes that the democratic scrutiny of the EDF, until the budgetisation of the EDF becomes reality, needs a more thorough approach by the national parliaments of the Member States; calls on the Council and Commission to include the EDF in the General Budget of the European Union at the 2009 Mid-term Review, as this will bring transparency and democratic legitimacy to an important part of the EU's development policy and budget; and insists, so that the term ‘democratic legitimacy’ does not disappear up its own funnel of irony, that the Lisbon Treaty, in addition to having legal force, must have moral force too, and therefore demands that it be offered to the peoples of Europe for their consent (or rejection);