The EU is used to bypass national democracy, Tory minister admits
- Jon Stone Manchester
- @joncstone
The European Parliament Creative Commons
Governments
use the European Union to bypass national democracy and pass laws that
national parliaments would not accept, a Home Office minister has
admitted.
Karen Bradley told a fringe meeting at Conservative party conference that other countries sometimes asked British MEPs to push legislation through the European Parliament so it could not be blocked by their own national legislatures.
She used the example of mandatory passenger name records on flights, which she said British MEPs were currently pushing through in Brussels for an unnamed country.
“When I’ve sat down with my counterparts and ministers from European countries and talked about passenger name records it’s quite clear that at a government level in all these countries they also want passenger name records but they cannot get them through their national parliaments,” she told the fringe meeting organised by the pro-EU Conservative Europe Group.
“They cannot get something like passenger name records through their national parliaments. So they say to us – can you please help us get it through at the European level?
Karen Bradley told a fringe meeting at Conservative party conference that other countries sometimes asked British MEPs to push legislation through the European Parliament so it could not be blocked by their own national legislatures.
She used the example of mandatory passenger name records on flights, which she said British MEPs were currently pushing through in Brussels for an unnamed country.
“When I’ve sat down with my counterparts and ministers from European countries and talked about passenger name records it’s quite clear that at a government level in all these countries they also want passenger name records but they cannot get them through their national parliaments,” she told the fringe meeting organised by the pro-EU Conservative Europe Group.
“They cannot get something like passenger name records through their national parliaments. So they say to us – can you please help us get it through at the European level?
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