Posted on 07/04/2017 7:41:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The head of the European Union’s executive body denounced the bloc’s parliament as “totally ridiculous” during a spat over the meager attendance at Tuesday’s plenary session for the prime minister of tiny Malta.
After EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker thanked the few dozen of the 700-plus legislators in the huge atrium for showing up, he insisted that the “parliament is not serious” since lawmakers failed to attend the day’s keynote debate in larger numbers.
The session centered on Malta’s 6-month presidency of the EU, which ended last weekend. Malta has 415,000 people in contrast to the EU, which has half a billion.
EU Parliament President Antonio Tajani chided Juncker and asked for “a more respectful attitude.”
“The Commission does not control the parliament. It is the parliament that should be controlling the Commission,” he said. To which Juncker retorted: “There are only a few members in the parliament to control the Commission. You are ridiculous.” …
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I doubt that the honorable Commission President actually meant that the EU Parliament is a totally ridiculous body that will not even defend the EU boarders against a horde of invaders.
It’s got no power to do anything of the sort. Only the Commission can write laws; the Parliament can’t write any.
Junker is a real piece of work
Nigel Farage has spoken about Mr. Juncker on countless occasions quite often to his face in the EU Parliament Nigel is a member of......
Guess they weren’t serving free champagne and hors d’oeuvres yesterday.
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