Policy laundering
Policy laundering
Posted May 14, 2008 12:48 UTC (Wed) by mattmelton (guest, #34842)In reply to: Policy laundering by rwmj
Parent article: European software patents via treaty?
The purpose of the Commission is to do exactly that. The European Parliament only has the power of veto during negotiations, with a stalemate being decided by the Council. Any system that has a fail-through-approval is bloody stupid. The only week, and oft tainted (if not warped), work the Commission does is investigate breaches of the Treaty - but even then it's by somewhat favourable descretion only. I've forever seen the Commission as a commerical interests body - the kind of body you go to, to pass EU-wide laws that benefit particular institutional intersts and not the European public. My position hasn't changed the slightest since I've began to study the fundamentals of EC law, and the working role of the Commission. It is unaccountable to the people (it's members are not elected! the UK's representative of late was a disgraced former MP who was friends with the Blair cabinet), and is so enshired any European Activism would seen the entire Commission resign - shocking. It's time to dissolve it.