Question 6017 — European Union

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Mr. Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade questions the Minister, attached to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, responsible for European affairs, on the transparency of the European legislative process, in particular the work carried out by the Council of the European Union. While citizen consultations will be launched very soon, with the aim of making Europe more accessible to its citizens, the opacity of European institutions, in particular of the Council, continues to fuel public skepticism towards the European Union. To compensate for the lack of transparency inherent in the functioning of the Council, the European Ombudsman published on Tuesday February 13, 2018 a certain number of recommendations following an investigation launched in March 2017. In particular, it recommends systematically recording the positions expressed by States in the Council's working groups. and in the meetings of COREPER ambassadors and, in principle, to make the documents which record these positions available to the public proactively and in a timely manner. The implementation of these recommendations should enable European citizens to fully benefit from the right to information relating to the decisions that their governments take to shape European legislation and, therefore, to better understand themselves. familiarize yourself with the European decision-making process. While the Council has until May 9, 2018 to respond to these recommendations, it wishes to question it in order to know whether the position defended by France will move in the direction of greater transparency of the European legislative process.

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