8 Amendments of Morten MESSERSCHMIDT related to 2017/2233(ACI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Article 10(1) TEU states that the functioning of the Union is founded on representative democracy, and whereas the Commission as the European Union’s executive plays such a decisive role in the functioning of the Union in total independence vis-à-vis its constituent peoples, so that the German constitutional Court warned against "a structural democratic deficit that would be unacceptable" (Lisbon case, 30 June 2009) ;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the draft amendments enable Members of the Commission to stand in European Parliament elections without having to resign or to take unpaid leave as any civil servant or agent working in the European institutions would be required to do; and whereas allowing Commissioners who are still in office to stand as candidates to the Parliament will lead to dangerous confusion and be bewildering for citizens;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, according to Article 10(4) TEU, political parties at European level contribute to forming European political awareness and to expressing the will of the citizens of the Union, which is inseparable from the nation-state, which is the hallmark of European civilization, since it is the political form which links citizens and sovereignty, and contribute to expressing the will of the citizens of the Union, the European character of which finds its highest expression as a community of Nations;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the Spitzenkandidaten process is a further step in strengthenRecalls that no genuine democratic Parliament should behave as a unitary institution and that, ing the EU’s parliamentary dimension, and therefore warns that the European Parliament will reject anyabsence of a crystal ball, it is not possible to predict voting results in advance, especially in the case of a possible vote of an assembly that has not been elected yet; recalls the fact that the candidate in thefor investiture procedure of theas a Commission President who was not appoill anyway be first determinted as a Spitzenkandidat in the run-up to the elections of the European Parliamentby consensus within the Council between Member States and in accordance with the Treaties;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines that the Spitzenkandidaten process fosters the, by highlighting the illusion of the choice among Spitzenkandidaten, most of whom are unknown to most voters, will foster, in the run-up to the European Parliament elections, political awareness ofamong European citizens inof the run-up to the elections of the European Parliament and"structural democratic deficit" that the Union seems unable to eliminate and further underlines that that process fails to reinforces the political legitimacy of both Parliament and the Commission by connecting their respective elections more directly to the choice of the voters, which institutions will be increasingly perceived as the representative bodies of a false Europe ;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that allsome major European political parties embraced the Spitzenkandidaten process in the run-up to the 2014 European elections, leading to the appointment of M. José-Manuel Barroso for a second term as the head of the Commission despite a poor record and before he takes as many the Revolving doors, which is itself a sign of its success, and stresses that the 2019 European elections will be the occasion to cement the use of that process;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. ApproveRejects the amendments to the Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission, annexed to this decision;