Institutional guerrilla warfare resumes
(Archives B2) The truce of the past elections, the guerrilla warfare between the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers should resume with renewed vigour.
From Tuesday, the legal committee of the assembly must meet. This meeting will bring together the “former” deputies. The new assembly will only take office at the beginning of July, once the political groups have been formed, the parliamentary committees have been formed and the President of Parliament has been appointed. Objective of the meeting: to decide to drag the Council of Ministers, and the European Commission, before the European Court of Justice, in Luxembourg, for breach of European rules and violation of fundamental rights on data protection.
In early June, the two institutions agreed to sign an agreement with the Americans to allow the transmission of data on passengers on flights departing from Europe to the USA. A decision which was perceived by many deputies as a real slap in the face to their institution.“The Commission and the Council took advantage of the period of suspension of the activities of Parliament for the elections, in defiance of institutional loyalty » protests Marco Cappato, Italian Radical deputy.
This is not the first time that Parliament has taken legal action to enforce its rights. On the contrary, it tends to do so more and more often. In December, he thus asked for the cancellation of the directive on family reunification, judging it to be too scant in terms of freedom...
NG-V. Published in France-Soir, June 2004
