What Is the European Parliament?

The European Parliament does not make laws, it acts as a kind of people’s watchdog over the activities of the Eurocrats and national governments. It can only reject a legislative proposal from the European Commission with a majority in favour based on the total number of seats, not the number of people who turn up to vote. With an absenteeism rate of 30%, this is hard to achieve.

The sleaze associated with expenses is at least equal to what we have seen at Westminster in recent weeks and the travelling circus where the whole Parliament moves to Strasbourg once a month is a disgusting waste of tax-payers’ money – nearly £200 million! Libertas will campaign to put an end to this nonsense.