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I've gathered several resources below which should help you get to grips with the EU, a complex organisation which has a major influence on life in the UK but about which we tend to know very little.
Of course there is a Wiki you can use, but you should try to avoid relying on a single source.
TASK: Individually or in a small group you will be assigned one broad EU topic to research. Your research should include a range of sources, and your report should make clear which sources you have used. You can present this report in whatever style best suits you: a KeyNote/PowerPoint; a paper document; informational posters; video; news-style report (TV news, radio news, or written newspaper/magazine article each with images too). Ask if you have another idea on how you want to present this. You can also call in to K5 most lunchtimes if you need to ask some short questions for help (be aware that I am busy with Media work!). You can take a slightly comical approach or a very formal style for your presentation - so long as you make sure your presentation is loaded with information. There will be a prize for the best presentation/report.TOPICS:
1: How the media report on the EU: is it fair and accurate?
- there is a left-wing and a right-wing press; one of these usually report very negatively on the EU...
- certain papers are notorious for their bias; you can find some great examples of this mis-reporting!
- you could use a day when there was a major EU news story to compare front pages (Kiosko; BBC; Paperboy)
- you could use simple searches such as 'books eu media bias'
- there are many useful resources further down this post...
2: The European Parliament: what does it do, how is it organised, where is it, does it really matter?
- see the sources within this post!
- what kind of things do they vote on/debate?
- can you find quotes from people with opposing views? Some who think it's useless and a waste of money, and some who think it's very valuable and important?
- can you sum up the story about it being based in two places, including some detail on the costs involved (how much does it cost to run)?
- there is a very particular way the parties are organised within the European Parliament, in groups; can you sum this up and find out if there are any controversies over who the UK parties work with?
3: MEPs and their election: how are they elected (are there issues with the election?), why do small parties do better in this than House of Commons elections?, what do they do, use a case study of a UK MEP.
- sum up what MEPs actually do
- a case study of an individual (ideally local) MEP would be useful - look at their website, maybe search the local paper for news stories
- what electoral/voting system is used? is this different to how we elect MPs? (yes...)
- election campaigning (see these PPBs; also these; posters; manifestoes)
4: EU Law: how influential is the EU on how we live: immigration, business, privacy, culture, travel, safety, environment, workers rights, discrimination, war/peace etc.
- can you list laws that EU members such as the UK must follow?
- EU immigration law is something that UKIP and the Conservatives see as flawed, but others see as vital: can you sum this up?
- all EU members are signed up to legally binding climate change/Co2 reduction targets, and there is a range of other EU environmental law
- there is EU consumer law, such as limits on mobile phone charges
- the ECHR is a symbol of the place of human rights, though the Conservatives and UKIP want to scrap the UK laws that enforce this, arguing it goes too far
5: History/Future of the EU: tell us the tale of how it started and kept growing - key dates, people, events; how do you think it will look in 10 years time?
- it has been through several name changes!
- the origins lie in plans to prevent WW2 being repeated; can you see examples of how the France/Germany relationship remain central?
- the UK was blocked several times by one of those countries and only joined in the 70s ... will it now leave the EU?
- will we get an EU army?
- the Euro is a major development - will it survive?
6: 2015 UK General Election: is the EU a major issue to (a) politicians/parties and.or (b) the public?; what are the parties' policies on it? You could conclude by explaining which party you most agree with, stating why, on this.
- A range of resources ... so, not just Wikipedia!
- A clear list (including the URL) of every resource used, including videos, eg this post: CitPol blog post on the EU, http://citpol.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/EU
- Quotes should be kept short; a good presentation will put points you've read about into your own words, not just copy/paste (this doesn't indicate you've read or understood anything, and you can find you look silly when asked questions you can't answer!)
- At the very least, ten facts, figures and/or quotes, possibly more if working in a larger group.
- If working in a group, a short but clear list of what each person specifically worked on/contributed.
- Be in a format that can be displayed on the screen - if you're working with paper, then photograph or scan this.
- Each person must have the same final report on their iPad (or saved in your My Documents). If you don't and one person is missing meaning you don't present the report, you will all get a Homework comment.
- Whether you choose a comic or serious approach, your report must be informative, and you must be prepared to face some questions - so you all need to engage in some reading/viewing/thinking!
- Every topic requires you to give your views; try to back these up with some evidence (quotes, statistics, graphics etc).
- Have a blend of writing/speech and (audio-)visual illustrations - think of your audience!
If you want to use SHORT (they must be short) clips from existing news or educational videos, perhaps even party political broadcasts, you can save clips to edit within iMovie through sites such as clipconverter.
Edit out everything you don't absolutely need. This will help you hold your audience's attention.
Likewise, use titles on screen to identify people, places, topics etc.
Official EU Guide: Europa.eu
The Europa.eu website: this is the official website of the EU itself, this is a comprehensive guide. The language can be a little challenging at times, but its menus are very helpful.
|Europe.eu site: a bit dull, but details every part of how the EU works!
As is the case for many of the areas you study in Citizenship, the BBC has produced a series of user-friendly guides, centred on short - just 90 seconds each! - films, about the various parts of the EU and how it works.
|Not very detailed, but highly user-friendly: the BBC guide.
Created for the May 2014 EU elections, this site gathers together new BBC analysis of many of the issues and challenges facing the EU today.
|This BBC site has longer, more detailed articles on the EU today and the challenges facing it.
This doesn't include the more recent additions, but is still a useful, simple visual guide to how the EU has grown from its original six member countries in 1957. This was part of a Guardian special series back in 2004, which also features reports on the new EU member nations - such as this one on Poland (just scroll down and you'll find links for reports on the other countries too) - which might be of particular interest to historians amongst you! There is also a more recent (2013) guide to the debate around holding an in/out referendum on the UK's EU membership.
You can find sections on most UK newspapers' sites which gather together recent EU news and articles. Two examples: The Guardian, a left-wing paper which tends to be quite pro-EU, and the Daily Telegraph, a right-wing paper which tends to be quite anti-EU ('Euroscpetic').
|The Guardian is often biased in a pro-EU way in its reportage
|By contrast, papers like the Telegraph tend to be very anti-EU ('Eurosceptic') in how they cover it
This is one of the issues on which the bias of the UK press is very easy to spot. While TV and radio have to be neutral/objective in the way they cover news (the media regulator OfCom can fine or even remove the license required to legally broadcast any companies that fail to uphold this), our press has no such restriction.
|The story is nonsense, but a fairly typical example of how some UK papers approach EU 'news'; read Greenslade's analysis here.
|Again, an inaccurate story; the effect over time is to build hostility towards the EU; read Greenslade's analysis here.
|A simply false scare story that encouraged hostility towards immigrants and the EU
|According to the UK press, what food item was to be legally renamed as 'emulsified high-fat offal tube'?! Read this BBC report to find out...
|Another Euromyth debunked by the TabloidWatch blog!
How the EU Works (7mins) by 'TalktoEU'
A Brief History of the EU by 'EPinUK'
If you've any suggestions for other useful resources, please add details (a URL) as a comment below and I'll add them to this post


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1. Let me begin by thanking you very much indeed
for giving us your valuable time. We know how extremely busy you
are with the Conventionand a lot of other matters, too.
We are delighted that you have agreed to come and talk to us a
bit about the role of national parliaments in the European Union
and, also, to talk a bit about the subsidiarity question. We would
like to focus very much on those two particular areas but if time
allows, we may stray into some adjacent areas. You are amongst
many familiar faces here. We admire very much what you have been
doing in the Convention and, also, in the joint committee of both
Houses. I do not know which has been the more difficult task to
perform, but, anyway, you have conveyed a lot of information to
us in the joint committee and we have heard excellent things about
the way in which you have handled the working group. Would you
like to make an opening statement?
(Ms Stuart) Yes, if I may. Just a very
brief one to update you on how this whole work will be taken forward.
The working groups have reported and the Convention Praesidium,
I think quite wisely, following the working groups and the debate
in the whole plenary session, then did not proceed to try to reconcile
all the various opinions and produce a definitive report, which
left avenues open, which I think is quite important. The Praesidium
is now at the stage of drafting the treaty articles, and that
by its very nature means that on the one hand you essentially
have four inches of paper which are submissions to working group
reports and, on the other, you have 15 lines of treaty articles.
So a considerable amount of work that has been recommended in
the national parliamentary working group I think we need to take
forward on a practical level, but actually would not be subject
to treaty articles. The process in the Praesidium now is looking
at a protocol which would be attached to the treaty to outline
the precise workings of the subsidiarity mechanism and much of
the other recommendations of the working group I think you will
find would not be specific treaty articles. However, I am working,
for example, with the President of the European Parliament to
take those forward on a practical level, given that the existence
of the Convention provides us with a real opportunity to drive
the co-operation between parliamentarians forward. So by mid-February
I hope that the Praesidium will be able to present the first set
of treaty articles and I hope that by the end of March the outline
of the treaty will be able to be discussed by the Convention.
2. Thank you very much indeed. The first question
I would like to put to youand your answer will be of particular
interest to this Committee, given the publicity this is beginning
to get in the informed side of the mediais it the case
that the Convention has moved up a gear with the arrival there
in the last month or two of figures such as Dominique deVillepini
Joschka Fischer, Ana Palacio and others. It all looks as though
the Convention is being transmogrified into the IGC itself. I
believe that you have expressed some reservations or fears about
what this means in terms of the Convention being a true reflection
of many groups of peopleparliaments, the public, etc. Can
you tell us (a) whether you think that this is what is happening
(it is becoming the IGC) and (b) expand a little bit on what your
fears are about that happening?
A. To cast your mind back to February when the
Convention started, many governments actually felt that they could
take a very relaxed attitude and that if the Convention came up
with a problem we can always put it right in the IGC. That has
changed considerably. To the credit of Her Majesty's Government
here and, also, to the credit of this House, who were amongst
the leaders in having taken the Convention extremely seriously
in that sense, the arrival of Joschka Fischer in September and
later on by Dominique deVillepin has certainly changed the atmosphere,
but it is a challenge for the Convention now to say "We are
very interested to know what Germany and France thinks, but they
cannot tell us what to do." Giscard himself has always been
very clear that he regards the Convention to have four components:
one is the Commission, one is the European Parliament, one is
national parliaments and the fourth national governments and all
four components have to reach a consensus. The most obvious demonstration
of thatwhilst there is a danger that it might become an
IGC (but I do not think the Convention will allow it to be)was
the last public session when I think the Convention itself reacted
very badly to the presentations both by Germany and France. One
of the speakers actually said "We resent being used as a
postal box by foreign ministers for tomorrow's newspaper articles."
I think the UK is extremely well-placed because Peter Hain's outstanding
achievement has been that he is physically there; he sits through
all the plenary sessions, he takes part in the working groups
and influences people's thinking in a way which I think the Convention
will respond to.
Chairman: That is very interesting. We saw Peter
Hain last night, incidentally, when the Clerk and I were coming
back on the Eurostar from Brussels. He had had a very, very long
day on the social chapter. He does work very hard.
3. While acknowledging the force of what you
have said and underlining the reactions that you have drawn attention
to, are there not also some who welcome the fact that they know
what governmental cases they may have to answer and feel that,
in a sense, this is a way of keeping in touch with the realities
of the post-Convention/IGC, and there is some value in that?
A. You are absolutely right, because if the
Convention arrived at conclusions which governments then did not
accept, our work might be extremely worthy but have no effect.
I remember in the early days the president was criticised, as
part of his Convention work, for doing the rounds of heads of
government. I think that criticism was wrong. He is absolutely
right to know where governments stand but, at the same time, I
really would not wish to lose the tremendous change in treaty
preparations which we see this time; it is for the very, very
first time that parliamentarians are part of the treaty drafting.
This was one of the reasons why I made sure that I had taken a
legal expert with me into the Praesidium's voluntary drafting.
I was not accompanied by a Foreign Office lawyer but was accompanied
by the Speaker's Counsel.
4. Hello again. I make it a general practice
to ask a different question on a different subject every time
I meet you, but I am running out of subjects! I did want to follow
up your statement. It is not a very difficult question, it is
to do with two points: the first is where there are likely to
be points of importance agreed by the Convention in due course
but which do not go into a treaty. How do you envisage that will
be handled practically? Would there be conclusions of the Convention
quite specifically which would, in turn, be submitted to the Intergovernmental
Conference, even though there would be no treaty change. That
is my first point. The second one is: it is obviously very importantand
I am glad you emphasised itthat we are now coming to the
drafting of the treaty. That is a really vital point. When the
treaty draft comes forward, as it begins to do now, how is it
going to come forward? In blocks, like a bit on the charter, a
bit on the competences, a bit on this and that? Is that the way
it is going to come forward, do you think?
A. If I may answer in reverse order, I think
by the very nature of the time constraint under which we worka
constraint which I think is actually very helpfulit will
come forward in blocks and it will be extremely important that
we draw on our legal advice to make sure that the various parts
are coherent. There is currently a discussion within the Praesidium
on whether we should not also draw on the legal services of the
three institutions to help us draw up some of the more legal parts
of what is known as part two of the treaty. The noble Lord Tomlinson,
very helpfully, made submissions saying that we ought to fall
back and draw on parliamentary legal services, and that is something
that I very much support. So I think it will come in blocks because
it is almost the only way it can work. In terms of taking forward
outcomes of the Convention which would not be a treaty basis,
if I just use one example, I would like to work on a kind of inter-institutional
agreement between national parliaments and the European Parliament.
Whether it will become a formal agreement or whether we simply
work on better practices of co-ordination, we shall have to see,
but that will be done within the institutions. There will be some
real practical problems. For example, one of the biggest difficulties
that we encountered in this House when we wanted to give better
access to MEPs here, was that, as I understand it, the House authorities
were extremely worried that the dining rooms would be overflowing
with MEPs wishing to make bookings. So we really do move from
the sublime to the ridiculous. At this stage, all I can say is
that we put it into action and I am a firm believer that if an
idea is a good idea and has a life of its own, it will continue
to proceed beyond the Convention.
Chairman: We looked into this question of the MEPs'
relationship with our national Parliament here in our scrutiny
report which is published, and it is certainly worthy of further
discussion. You have touched directly upon the issue of national
parliaments. I am going to ask Lady Harris to follow up on this.
5. Thank you, my Lord Chairman. We very much
enjoyed reading the report of your working group and thank you
very much for that. I think it would be helpful, for the record,
if you could outline (as briefly as possible because there are
a lot of conclusions and thoughts in there) what the conclusions
of your working group were on the role of national parliaments.
A. I think the conclusions fall into three broad
categories. On page 8 of the report we come forward with a number
of conclusions which deal with how scrutiny could be improved,
and the purpose of those recommendations was two-fold. One was
to assist the process, particularly for the candidate countries
who came to the Convention without having any mechanisms in place
at all, to try and share with them what our common conclusion
was on what is the best way forward, because I do not think any
one system is "the best"; it is horses for courses.
The second group was a very practical information flow, enabling
processes for the time limits of information and the distribution
of it. The third group was much more in terms of how can we build
on subsidiarity mechanisms and strengthen them, what can we do
in terms of a constitutional treaty enshrined within the Convention
method (and by that I mean a method of parliamentary involvement
in the drafting), and we also touched on the rather difficult
issue of the future of COSAC, so it was more of an outside relationship.
What I was always extremely mindful of is that we have to respect
the value of nationhoodif I may call it thusand,
also, we have to be ourselves servants of the principles of subsidiarity.
Thus, for national parliaments to have a role must be an enabling
role, but I do not think you can usurp the European Union's role
and duty to impose, for example, a duty on national parliaments
to scrutinise; you must enable them. Then they can deal with it
as they wish. That is sometimes a difficult balancing act.
6. You made remarks earlier in answer to the
Lord Chairman's question about what is going to happen now. Do
they go along with what progress you have been making within your
working group as well? So when you talked about taking forward
on a practical level some of the considerations that you have
been talking about, you would say that all these things are in
the same vein as the remarks you made to the Lord Chairman?
A. Yes, broadly, but I would like to highlight
just one issueand I am in the process of trying to take
the process much furtherand that is in relation to the
mechanism of early warning in relation to subsidiarity. The mechanism
as it is in the subsidiarity group and as it is here was simply
the consensus we could reach at that point. My view at this stage
is that it does not go far enough. Two things have happened. I
have tried to create an atmosphere where national parliamentarians
are beginning to find a common voicenot an easy task in
itself. The second is that I hope by next week to actually table
a very precise proposal to the Convention which will suggest a
practical outline of what that mechanism, in my view, should look
like. It should have a yellow card triggered by a third of national
parliaments, which would require the Commission to reconsider,
or just to simply review its process. Then, by a logical conclusion,
there should also be a red card or a red light, triggered by two-thirds
of national parliaments, which would actually require the Commission
to withdraw and resubmit. There is then a practical problem that
some countries have unicameral systems and others are bicameral.
The compromise conclusion, which, I think, is not only a compromise
but also a useful one in terms of protecting the interests of
smaller countries, is to give each country two votes. So Finland
is unicameral, it has two votes, if the United Kingdom is bicameral
we have two votes and if we are tactically wise then we ensure
that both Houses arrive at the same conclusion. If, however, there
is a deep disagreement then we end up cancelling each other out,
but we have two votes. It also overcomes the problem of the difference
between large countries and smaller countriesthere is an
equality, and that equality, I think, is symbolically very important.
So that is a very practical and most important way in which to
take the working group's findings further and hope to see whether
we can enshrine them in a treaty. I would be unrealistic if I
did not say that I expect to meet a considerable amount of opposition,
but I feel that I can forgive myself failure but I could not forgive
myself not trying.
Chairman: We have got into an area of great interest
to Lord Howell. First of all, however, I was interested in what
you said about giving two votes to each country, whether they
were unicameral or bicameral, because I pushed that very hard
in COSAC. Somebody commented that they thought this was too "theatrical"
or something like that, but it seemed the obvious thing to do
in order to give everybody a level playing field.
7. I am very interested in your ambitious thought
that there might be, beyond a yellow card, a red card which would
actually stop the whole process. I think some of us did feel that
the suggestions in the subsidiarity working group that this should
all go back to the Commission and they should somehow re-examine
those bits was not enough. You clearly think that as well. Can
I just ask, before putting a more detailed question, a more general
question about the concept of subsidiarity. Do you think that
is a substantial enough concept to provide the leverage and the
role for national parliaments that is being sought? It always
seems to me a little condescending in that it implies some higher
body's dishing out privileges to a lower body, whereas I suppose
the reverse view would be that this is actually children talking
to their parents and they should not talk in quite such condescending
terms. Is there a worry about that, or do you think subsidiarity
is established as a concept and we can build on that?
A. I remember being a law lecturer at the time
when subsidiarity was introduced, which was in the 1990s, and
I remember that there were 23 definitions of subsidiarity as well
as the Pope's. My view of subsidiarity has been two-fold: one
is quite simple, what is the lowest appropriate level to make
that decision? So the thinking, in my view, ought to be "Can
this satisfaction be done at national or regional level?"
If the answer to that is yes, what is the added value of taking
it up? I have also always felt that it is subsidiarity and proportionality
which go hand-in-hand. There has been a problem for some of my
parliamentary colleagues who feel that whilst parliaments have
a role to speak about subsidiarity it is a governmental role to
decide on proportionality. I am still not entirely sure whether
they are right, but I think if we are realistic it is the most
important decision that national parliaments should be given a
view as to whether it should be done at a European level or at
a lower level. That is probably as far as we can take it.
8. Am I right in seeing your red card ideawhich
you have quite obviously pushed but are not totally confident
about achievingas actually transferring real power to the
national parliaments in a way that the present proposals do not
really do, because in the end the Commission decides? Is that
a right interpretation? Do you think there is any chance of making
headway with it?
A. The main opposition to the existence of a
red light comes from those who feel that we would then undermine
the Commission's right of initiative. I think that is over-stating
the case, but I do think a mechanism where the Commission knows
that a substantial number can tell the Commission "We simply
will not accept this" will actually be very useful as a reminder
to the Commission and it will check things in advance before the
red card is used. I think it will have the greatest effect in
terms of changing the Commission's way of looking at things, but
I do not see it as a way to delay the process. That is why we
are very careful about the time limits. I also do not wish to
take away from the Commission the right of initiative, but I do
wish to give national parliaments the right to say sometimes "No".
9. Just one more question, if I may, my Lord
Chairman? Subsidiarity, as I remember, is all about present and
future proposals. There is a school of thought that the old acquis
built up over history as full of proposals in the past which might
not be suitable for central administration today. Has that been
discussed in your groupgoing back and thinking about some
return of powers that have been, for other reasons now out of
date, held at the centre?
A. It has certainly been thought about a great
deal by me. One of the things which I would wish to see as a matter
of logic is a treaty which, as it has clauses which allow the
creation of shared competences and exclusive competences to move
up, I think there must be, by logic, a mechanism which allows
them to move down. My critics would say that this is quite unnecessary
because we can only use it by the mechanism of treaty changes,
but I think the furthest the Convention and the current treaty
can go in the time-scale is to create a mechanism for it to move
down and then it would be a question of the political will to
allow that to happen within that framework.
Lord Howell of Guildford: Thank you.
10. There is one further issue related to national
parliaments we want to go back to, but before that am I right
in thinking that the country which is probably the most defensive
of the rights of the initiative of the Commission in relation
to this is Germany?
A. Yes. It is one of the very strong defenders
of this. However, you also have to accept that, amongst the candidate
countries, a lot of them see the Commission as the protectors
of the smallest. Therefore, they instinctively will turn to the
Commission and feel that that is something that will protect them
from the biggest. Some of the Scandinavian countries are somewhat
torn between wishing for a very strong Commission but also having
extremely strong traditions of parliamentary sovereignty. So the
really more sophisticated debate goes on between those who accept
that governments have traditionally been prepared to trade parliamentary
sovereignty for the national interest, and to what extent they
would want to maintain that rather than a debate on the Commission's
right of initiative. I think in the United Kingdom there is no
question the Commission has a right of initiativeI do not
think anybody seriously questions that.
Chairman: Thank you very much indeed. I just want
to come back to the method by which you have been examining the
whole question of the role of national parliaments. I would like
Lady Maddock to put a question to you.
11. In reaching your conclusions on the working
group on national parliaments, you talked to various Member States
and you talked to expert individual witnesses. I wonder if you
could give us a brief outline of those discussions.
A. It was very curious; it was a very different
working group, the way we worked, because in a sense we were the
experts ourselves. I was very keen that the exchange of our own
experience was part of that working group. That is why, for example,
we asked for the French representatives to tell us how they, for
example, conducted scrutiny in France and the Scandinavians did
the same. We had one witness, Professor Maurer, who had done a
study of the various mechanisms, but what I was really concerned
about was that the working group would accept the political realities,
because we all know that you can create perfectly wonderful mechanisms
on paper which then may or may not work in reality. We need to
explore the conflict between holding the executive to account
and not tying the hands of the ministers. If, for example, parliament
mandates its own ministers and they are going to negotiate with
an unmovable position, then we all know, in terms of European
negotiations, that the ministers are not talked to because they
know that is their position and they cannot move. So we took outside
evidence also from the Commission, for example, on how they applied
some of the protocols, and how they exercise article 308ie,
that the Commission dealt with competences from outside. I was
very surprised that the Members of the European Parliament did
not table the Napolitano as evidence to the group. That was their
choice. So clearly the common position of the European Parliament
was not quite as defined as we thought it was. I confess that
the debates were very often dominated by the MEPs who felt there
was a threat from us, but there was one session towards the end
where after about four hours, I think, we all left the room having
learnt something. There was something we had been unaware of.
So I think that paper in the end showed a very true and informed
consensus amongst those who had been in the European Parliament.
Baroness Maddock: Ms Stuart, some of what you have
said reflects some of the discussions we have had here about how
we do scrutiny, I think.
Chairman: Can we move on and broach the issues concerning
the relationship of the Council of Ministers to national parliaments,
because you have raised some issues in your report? I would like
Baroness Stern to speak to this.
12. Thank you for your excellent report. You
would probably agree, I think, that the European bodies are little
known, barely understood and that very few people understand who
actually makes the decisionsit is probably someone called
Brussels, but nobody really knows who that is. You recommend,
I think rather sensibly, that the Council should act in public
in all the cases where it exercises its legislative functions.
We in this Committee support that recommendation, as does the
House of Commons European Committee. Could you give us any indication
whether you think the Council would agree to that? Do you think,
in particular, the UK Government is going to agree with what is
actually quite a radical change in the way things have been done?
A. I think it was the Seville Council where
moves were already made to meeting in public as much as possible.
The fundamental mistake, I think, governments sometimes make is
that they think that the intergovernmental method is inherently
more democratic than any other method. If the intergovernmental
method is ministers meeting behind closed doors and you cannot
hold individuals to account, it is just as undemocratic as civil
servants meeting behind closed doors. So there is a willingness
to open the Council of Ministers, but I also am sufficiently a
realist to know that deals will be struck and if they are not
struck behind closed doors they will be struck in corridors and
in other places. In terms of opening it up, there is a very broad
consensus. What is less of a broad consensus, because the idea
is as yet not fully thought through, is the suggestion of a separate
legislative council. If the idea is seen as going the way of making
the Council of Ministers like a second chamber in the German system,
where they represent the regions, I would have some severe misgivings.
13. Why?
A. The reason is because in Germany the Bundesrat,
which represents the Lander, is the secondary body to the
Bundestag as the first body, and I would not wish to see a reduction
of the role of the Council of Ministers.
14. Is not the difficulty with following and
accepting the Seville proposals as being adequate that the judge
of what is legislative activity and what is executive activity
is the Council itself, and that the proposal that there should
be a legislative council is designed to differentiate functionally
to preclude the possibility of the Union slipping into accepting
that opening statements by members of the Council and concluding
statements would be anything like adequate to allow proper oversight
and scrutiny?
A. You are right to point out that tension,
except that you do not have to resolve it within the treaty provisions
of the Convention. The Council can open its doors and question
the way it opens its doors now, without the existence of the Convention.
What would worry me is if we created a legislative council in
a different building and with a different staff, and separated
from the other functions, because I think it could logically lead
to an ultimate weakening of the way it operates. It is then also
the question of who is the representative on that council, which
then takes you into some ideas which were floated in some countries
that you should take European matters out of the foreign office
where they tend to be, and if you were to take that to its logical
conclusion in the UK context, you would have a Cabinet minister
virtually permanently based in Europe to come back to represent
what we have done at the European level in the Cabinet. I just
see practical difficulties at this stage, but it is one of those
issues which I think will be debated over the next few months,
and we do not know yet.
15. I want to ask about the six-monthly cycle
of presidencies. You may remember that we and others have taken
the view that life would be more orderly if this could be reformedperhaps
into something rather longer. Is this a concept which is finding
any support in the Convention?
A. I think the most powerful statement to support
the idea of an end to the six-month period of presidency was what
the Danish Prime Minister, Rasmussen, said immediately after the
end of his six-monthly presidency, when he just said that within
a large union of 25 you simply cannot do it. I think it needs
to come to an end because if we want the Commission, the European
Parliament and the Council to have a balance of power then you
must accept that the Commission runs for five years solid and
that the European Parliament is a five-year term with solid membership.
The third element is inherently weakened by every six months changing
the chairmanship, changing its priorities and changing its membership
because of elections. This instability is even worse when you
go to sectoral councils. On the other hand, you have that very
real argument that it is for the European Union extremely important
that individual countries can show their part in Europe. Where
the arguments now lie is how do you combine those conflicting
interests. One of the ideas which is gaining ground is that you
have a hosting presidency every six months, so you can still have
a country being your base, but you have a more permanent leadership
of the Council, which could be for two-and-a-half years or five
years, but also look at who chairs the sectoral councils and each
country could, in rotation, say, chair those for a five-year period
or a two-and-a-half year period to, on the one hand, give more
stability to the whole proceedings but, on the other hand, ensure
that each country, irrespective of its size, at some stage can
take centre stage.
16. Just following Lord Selborne's question,
the real opponents of the longer-term three or five-year presidencies
are of course (a) the Commission and (b) the other small countries,
as you rightly said. The word on the corridor here is that Britain
has rather taken the side of the big boys, the larger countries,
and not taken the side of the smaller countries in trying to devise
a middle way, which is what you have indicated. Is that a fair
interpretation? Is that not rather a pity, that we really are
going to support the cause of the small countries and not look
like a triangle of power?
A. No, you are not right, but I know why you
think that. When the proposals were first put on the table, the
Praesidium called it the "ABC plan", which was the Aznar
Blair Chirac plan and the question really was that these were
the potential retirement plans for three prime ministers. That
rather over-shadowed our proposals and it has actually been the
UK Government which has very much pushed that idea of a shared
Presidency, shared Council meetings. I think it is one of those
issues where once it had been put on the table, it suddenly took
on a life of its own and I think we genuinely agreed they did
not, but they seem to be.
17. Your report recommends that the records
of the Council's proceedings should be sent within ten day from
the European Parliament to the national parliaments. How do you
think that this system will work and do you think that the national
parliaments will be geared up to make use of it?
A. I think it is quite a challenge for the national
parliaments to respond to this and some of our thinking behind
establishing a direct line of communication was actually not to
make parliaments simply receivers of information which the governments
wish to hand on. As I understand it, this has never been a problem
in the United Kingdom, but I do know that there have been some
countries who felt that their governments were not quite as good
at passing on information. It was more an ensuring of a free flow
of information which could not be hindered and in those countries
where it was not a problem and in some others where it was, you
could avoid that problem. Some felt it was appropriate that it
should go direct to them.
18. We always have one question on COSAC and
to a certain extent it is my responsibility in this Committee,
so I just wanted to put one question to you. In light of the fact
that we are making big efforts with some other Member States'
parliaments to have COSAC focus primarily on the spread of best
practice, to have that exchange of information and experience
and not to get into long and tedious debates on policy issues
which frankly it is not the business of COSAC to do and in light
of the fact that we are not sure that we are going to succeed
in getting COSAC really focused on this, would you regard the
failure to get that focus correct as a kind of disaster which
might prompt you to think, as some of us think, that maybe there
is an alternative, that maybe a group of like-minded parliaments
might care to get together and see if they cannot set up a system
independently? I know it sounds rather like enhanced cooperation
at the national parliamentary level, but our frustration is such,
given the divisions in COSAC as to what we should be talking about,
that maybe we have to think of an alternative. Could you make
a comment on that?
A. I think COSAC is probably the one institution
which troubles me most, not least because I am still struggling
in trying to find a way forward. I think there is a place for
European parliamentarians and national parliamentarians to work
together. I think there is a place, particularly when we talk
about a proper mechanism on subsidiarity, to have a network for
an exchange of ideas and an exchange of how decisions are arrived
at. However, if that mechanism of subsidiarity has as part of
its membership MEPs, I do not think that would be appropriate.
My original hope was that we could achieve with COSAC something
like the metamorphosis which happened every time the Dr Who actor
changed because I am inherently against creating new institutions.
I hope that we would have here a framework of institutions which
could reform itself in a way which would make it more meaningful.
I was struck by the fact that how in public speaker after speaker
praised the worthiness of COSAC and then in private almost said
the opposite, so there was a clear recognition that COSAC needed
reforming. I have not as yet seen the report of the COSAC meeting
yesterday, but from what I gather it is not taking us any further
either. It is almost my plea to you by saying, "How can we
take forward the national parliaments to really work together
on subsidiarity and how can we work with MEPs?" This of course
is where the Congress of the People raises its ugly head, but
I am not entirely sure what the legal basis of COSAC is if COSAC
is not reforming itself and it clearly appears not to be able
to do that. Can anybody actually do it from outside? I am still
struggling with COSAC. I want it to reform itself to be a meaningful
body, but I fear I am increasingly reaching the point where my
hope is in vain.
Chairman: Thank you very much. I do not want to get
into a debate about COSAC here, although I was at the meeting
yesterday in Brussels and a little bit of progress was made, but
painfully slowly and on some of the major issues there is still
not real agreement as to what COSAC is meant to be doing. There
are still those who would like to see it issue grand statements
of policy, which is frankly not its business to do, but that is
for another day and we will discuss that later. You will see the
report anyway and draw your own conclusions from it. Can we move
on to the scrutiny of documents.
19. Scrutiny is a very important factor as between
national parliaments and Brussels. It plays its part in maintaining
a democratic balance. In your report you recommended that the
Commission should send consultative documents direct to national
parliaments as well as governments, an excellent recommendation,
but reading between the lines there seems to be a very great concern
on the part of the Working Group about the present adequacy and
effectiveness of scrutiny by some national parliaments. Could
you enlarge upon your concerns? How can we better ensure cooperation
between those national parliaments so as to produce a best practice
of scrutiny arrangements?
A. You are quite right that there are some countries
who choose not to scrutinise, but I think we have to accept that.
There was also a real dichotomy of views as to what scrutiny really
is all about. Particularly some of the smaller countries saw scrutiny
as a kind of compensatory sovereignty. They felt that simply knowing
what was going on was the best they could achieve rather than
influencing the outcome, whereas to me scrutiny is a process by
which at times you can challenge the outcome and change decisions.
I think there is a reflection in the Working Group in the recommendations
that we were country-neutral. We did not challenge those countries
which do not scrutinise and regard it as a national prerogative
not to. However, we felt very strongly that all the means should
be made available to have a scrutiny mechanism which was effective,
but also allowed challenges to the decisions, hence our recommendation
to respect the six-week period and not to acknowledge preliminary
agreements. I think in years to come this will be a real challenge
for national parliaments. If we give them new powers under the
subsidiarity mechanism and an ability to scrutinise, they will
actually do it and quite a number of them, I think, will find
it very difficult. I think your Lordships are more aware than
I am of just how difficult it is to deal with the mass of information
that comes and really to engage with it in a politically-strategic
way, hence the recommendation that national parliaments should
also be made aware of the annual programme. Again it was your
Lordships' Committee report which recommended greater engagement
in that, so that as you scrutinise, you also have more of a vision
of what is coming your way, so you can focus on those areas which
are politically more sensitive. I think that is why you will find
some of the recommendations of that Group rather open because
we tried to make the mechanisms there.

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Two years ago I was siting on a beach at my heaviest weight of more than 400lbs asking myself, how did I get to be this big? More than that, I asked myself another question, if I were to die that day, would there be a coffin large enough to hold my body?I knew the answer to the first question. I knew it all so well, yet never really wanted to face the fact that I was addicted to food but was too proud to admit it.It was the answer to the second question that terrified me. Not only because I was a single parent to two sons, but because I'm a diabetic whose numbers had become so uncontrollable that the possibility of a sudden death from a heart attack or from a stroke or any of the other causes of uncontrolled diabetes was surely in the cards for me that day.At 6'1\


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Katie M. Moss
October 8, 2011
The circle never ends,
It always begins
From a point of no return
From the last place you felt heat.
From the time you felt peace.
Those fires burn dark and smoky,
Stone red and embers crying
For heights they'll never reach.
For a space they'll never breach.
Fingers clasp at the nothing
That surrounds you and embodies:
All of us are essence
Slowly drifting and dispelling.
Slowly fighting as we're fleeting.
Disappearing while we sleep.
A dark hallway shrouds your coming
Where keys no locks will fit
No doors will open for you.
No lights to show the way,
No home for you to reach.
Cobwebs and shadows growing
Surround you ever nearer.
I linger there before you
In places you won't reach.
…A life that can't be breached.
I knew you once,
I knew you.
As your shadow,
Oh, how easily I seeped.
Your life you'll spend forever
In search of those who'll know you
For hands to clasp in the darkness,
For a cool breath to ease the flames.


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Sunday, August 22, 2010
ABC Kitchen, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Not your average Hong Kong char-chan-teng type soda tenderized marinated meats on a sizzling hot plate? pork chop bun with refried chips and cocktail canned fruits in "salad" sauce?
No wonder I've heard so much about this place.
I've been wanting to try forever, but the place's always fully booked, but finally, I had my chance, and we went all out, almost ordering the whole menu :)
One of my favorite items of the night was the soft shell crab appetizer. Crispy on the outside, fluffy on the inside, well seasoned.
We were so hungry that night, these warm and fluffy bread were consumed the minutes they were placed on the table.
Nice touch of herbs...but I wish there was more butter...a tiny chunk was not enough for the four of us ;)
I've never tried a proper bouillabaisse before...
...but this one tasted like a watered down lobster bisque.
It could really use more seasonings...the gorgeous piece of bread on top is a nice touch. If only the soup was tasty enough, it'd be perfect.
My other favorite dish was the linguini carbonara.
The pasta was perfectly cooked, the sauce was creamy and tasty. We couldn't get enough of it, we ordered another portion :)
The pizza appetizer was alright...but it's nothing memorable.
Our centerpiece of the night was this whole roasted suckling pig, which had to be ordered in advance.
The owner kindly took out the whole pig for photographing purposes, before sending the pig back into the kitchen for more roasting. We were a little worried, our pig looked kinda...small.
But, let's get back to the pig later...
The spring chicken stuffed with goat cheese and spinach looked gorgeous.
However, I found that the inner part of the chicken was a little bit undercooked. Yikes!
Nevertheless, loved the idea, the goat cheese gave the chicken the slap of flavor it needed, it was juicy, and the salad on the side balances the dish perfectly.
The tuna steak was a little dry, flaky and underseasoned, but the sauce was nice.
Now, let's get back to the pig.
Crackling golden crispy skin...with mostly tender, tasty and juicy meat, especially the fatty bits. However, there were still some dry and tough parts...I guess that's the risk of ordering the whole pig, you don't only get the best bits.
We underestimated our pig a little, we had a lot of leftover, I brought home even the brain, which was a very special treat, as it is not easy to find pig's brain served anywhere in Hong Kong these days, despite the belief that the Chinese eat everything :)
PS. If you want a touch of heat, ask for some hot sauce, but handle with care, the hot sauce is really really hot, even for me, and I can handle my heat ;)
We also ordered their paella (that's right, we almost ordered everything on the menu).
Beautiful flavors, meaty and savory from the stock and bacon :D fragrant and fresh from the seafood.
However, the rice was a bit mushy...
...and I was missing the crispy burnt bits at the bottom of paella it was almost...soupy.
To end our meal, we had the dessert platter to share.
The creme brulee was nothing memorable, the chocolate puff was decent, but we've had better from Bread Papa, the mousse...again, nothing special, the black sesame souffle looked gorgeous but it left a weird aftertaste...the best for me was surprisingly...the banofee pie. The caramel was super rich, smoky, sweet with a tinge of saltiness, perfect with cream, chocolate sauce and banana.
We were absolutely stuffed at HK$250 per person (with a few beers, and several portion of pig for lunch boxes for the next day ^_^)
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8 comments:
- Claudine said...
God, all that food looks delicious. I'm curious about the pig ! Here, in Montreal, there is a restaurant named : Le pied de cochon (It means a pig foot and pig is the speciality on the menu. And they also cook pigs feet !
Clodo xox
- August 22, 2010 at 9:56 AM
- Jackie said...
It looks like it was a vaguely disappointing meal, then? But the photos look yummy! I wonder why it's so hard to get into...
Jax x
- August 22, 2010 at 5:06 PM
- Little Corner of Mine said...
I loved fried soft shell crab! Looks like a good dinner.
- August 23, 2010 at 2:07 AM
- pigpigscorner said...
OMG I want that pig!
- August 23, 2010 at 3:32 AM
- Cooking Gallery said...
What a delicious spread!! About paella: I actually even had the same problem with mushy paella when I was in Barcelona some weeks ago, quite disappointed - but a few people told me that paella are meant to be a bit like risotto??? If so, then I don't like the authentic mushy paella, I like my paella well cooked but not wet.
- August 23, 2010 at 4:43 AM
- tigerfish said...
I thought it is hard to imagine a whole roasted suckling pig to be serve amidst pasta dishes and banofee pies :O
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- Pei Lin said...
Did you say brain?! My friend loves it but I can't do brains!!!! Seems like most of the food were only so so!
- August 24, 2010 at 11:23 AM
- zenchef said...
You ate a whole baby pig by yourself?
I'm shocked! ;)
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From left to right: Bethany Sardinha, Jeff LaVaute, and Kristina Teng will fill some of the client responsibilities of of managing partner Jennie Fischette, as well as take on new accounts at the firm.
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By Phil Lawler (bio - articles ) | Jan 31, 2005
This morning, in announcing that the Holy Father is suffering from "flu-like symptoms," papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls added an interesting note: "However, the 2005 Pontifical Yearbook was presented to him."
Why did he mention that?
Our guess is that it was a signal. Since everyone is understandably nervous about the Pope's health, Navarro-Valls was indicating that John Paul is not too sick to sit up and acknowledge receipt of a book.
That's not much comfort, but it's something. The message, it seems, is that this really is the flu.
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Jan. 31, 2005 10:17 PM ET USA
The inscription on the yearbook: "It was as it is".
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Jan. 31, 2005 8:44 PM ET USA
The flu can be a very serious ailment when you are as old and as sick as the Holy Father. The lingering deaths of both my father and my mother-in-law were hastened on their way by influenza just weeks before each of their respective deaths. Take that with the salt that it deserves: other encounters with respiratory ailments had been successfully fought until the last one "got 'em"
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Friday, July 16, 2010
Spicy Sardines with Tomatoes and Zucchini
My love for canned food and anything lazy-ass-friendly is no secret.
But this spicy sardine dish is something that's rather far from lazy. It's doing a lazy dish the un-lazy way, as it involves a bit more than opening a can of sardines and reheating it in a microwave, which would've been nice too, but we wanna bring canned sardines to another level ;)
It's a dish that's always served back home in Indonesia when I was growing up...minus the zucchini. I simply added the zucchini as I want it to be a one-dish-dinner (as always).
It takes more than opening a can of sardines, but it is by no means difficult (you know me and my limited skills ^_*)
- 1 large can of sardines in tomato sauce
- 1 zucchini, cleaned and sliced to 5mm thick slices
- 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
- 1 onion, sliced thinly
- 1 red chilli, sliced thinly (or more depends on how spicy you want it to be)
- 2 tomatoes, cut into 8 sections
- olive oil, salt, pepper, kecap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce), light soy sauce, fish sauce, hot water, crispy shallot (for garnish)
Saute 1 clove of garlic in hot olive oil, add zucchini pieces, season with salt, pepper and a touch of fish sauce, let cook (add a bit of hot water if necessary), set aside. Saute the other clove of garlic, onion and chilli in hot olive oil until fragrant, add sardines including the juice, let cook for a while, season with fish sauce, light soy, kecap manis, and pepper. Add hot water if you want more "sauce", pour over zucchini, garnish with crispy shallot and serve with steamed rice.
Quick, easy, tasty, although not too lazy :)
7 comments:
- Joanne said...
I'm just coming around to sardines and need some lazy ass dishes what with my crazy new work schedule. Plus I'm up to my ears in summer squash. Fate? I think so.
- July 16, 2010 at 8:23 PM
- This Sunday Child said...
Haven't dropped by your blog in a while... and now I utterly WOWed!
The photos are OHmazing!!!!
love love love
- July 16, 2010 at 11:24 PM
- Indonesia-Eats said...
With this can of sardines, you can make balado terong as well.:)
- July 17, 2010 at 1:06 AM
- Little Corner of Mine said...
Looks great and healthy! I am a sucker for one dish meal too.
- July 17, 2010 at 2:36 AM
- tigerfish said...
I am in love with canned sardines...even without tomato sauce. Those in Spring Water or Olive Oil attract me too. The next I want to find is fresh sardines. BTW, sardines are good for me. Small fish, less mercury...heh heh heh...
- July 17, 2010 at 5:06 AM
- YaYa said...
Fantastic idea definitely on the recipe cards for future reference, perhaps you should start a lazy ass food blog...oops maybe you already have, haha!
- July 17, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- babe_kl said...
hmm never thot of adding tomatoes, thanks for another time saving dish :D
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