Quite apart from anything prior to that date, it was the introduction, in 1979, of direct elections to the European Parliament, and the progressive improvement of its rights and prerogatives as the joint legislator for the EU, and its budgetary authority, that made it wholly inappropriate and improper that the rights of its Members should be subject to national law and that we should be dependent on national parliaments.
E’ una proposta equilibrata e rispettabile, che risolve i problemi ai quali ho già fatto riferimento, anche se dobbiamo tener contro della necessità di lunghi periodi di transizione nel passaggio verso un sistema standardizzato.