3 Amendments of Paulo RANGEL related to 2018/2096(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Article 228 TFEU and Article 3 of the Statute of the Ombudsman allows the Ombudsman to conduct inquiries for which she finds grounds, either on the basis of a complaint or on her own initiative;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the integrity of the Statute and the independence of the Ombudsman depend on avoiding any overlap between the powers constitutionally assigned to the latter and those of the European Parliament and the Court of Justice of the European Union;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Points out that thisRecalls that, under Article 10(2) of the Lisbon Treaty, national governments are democratically accountable to national parliaments, and considers this to be the linchpin for the functioning of national parliaments in the European Union; points out that the lack of information and transparency 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 ithat this practice, which must be urgently ended, is conducive to infringement of the Treaties and irresponsible on the part of members of national governments to undermine trust in the European Union byhat are ‘blaming Brussels’ for decisions that they themselves were involved in; demands an immediate end to this practice;.