Traduction de «Checks and balances system » (Anglais → Français) :

1. Regrets the absence of new proposals from the Commission on an enhanced democratisation of the European Semester process, which remains absolutely necessary and should be a high priority; notes the Commission’s ‘Blueprint for a Deep and Genuine EMU – Launching a European Debate’; reaffirms its call for an appropriate ‘checks and balances’ system, through enhanced participation of both the European Parliament and the national parliaments and strengthened coordination between them in all phases of the European Semester (on the basis of Article 13 of the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Unio ...[+++]n) in order to transform the current very formal exercise of the European Semester into genuine economic and budgetary cooperation;

18. Taking account of the right of a democratically elected parliament to adopt law in line with fundamental rights, with respect for political minorities, and with a democratically adequate and transparent procedure, and of the duty courts, both ordinary and constitutional, to safeguard the compatibility of the laws with the constitution, underlines the importance of the principle of separation of powers and a properly functioning system of checks and balances; is concerned in this connection about the shift of powers in constitutional matters to the advantage of the parliament and to the detri ...[+++]ment of the Constitutional Court, which undermines severely the principle of separation of powers and a properly functioning system of checks and balances, which are key corollaries of the rule of law; welcomes in this regard the Eger joint statement of 16 May 2013 by the Presidents of the Hungarian and Romanian Constitutional Courts, Péter Paczolay and Augustin Zegrean, stressing that constitutional courts bear a special responsibility in countries ruled by a two-thirds majority;

They speak about: one, the parliamentarisation of the Union; two, the communitarisation of the European institutions; three, the establishment of an interinstitutional equilibrium as a guarantee for a transnational checks-and-balances system; four, the assurance of legislative coherence and cohesion at European Union level through Europeanisation of the national parliaments and not nationalisation of the European Parliament; five, concentrations of instruments and policies for the good of institutional efficiency; and, six, the improvement of representation, transparency and participation at European Union level.

The irony is that I suspect if a referendum asked Canadians whether they prefer the Westminster parliamentary system or the U.S. checks and balances system, they probably would say that they prefer the British system.

I hope that Portugal is concerned about it – but I know that other Member States, Belgium, Luxembourg and others too, are talking about it – as I think it is an urgent matter and that it would be much more important to start to tackle the question of the ‘check and balance’ system operating between our institutions than to engage in sideways shifts that are liable to freeze any further progress and put it on hold by discussing constitutions or Charters of Fundamental Rights, without even having any legal basis for this charter.

And what about the check and balance system applied to the management of the $600-billion public debt?