\u201cWat de Europese Commissie hier doet, is een ongekend geval van machtsmisbruik. Het voorlopig in werking stellen van een overeenkomst, hoewel deze noch door het Europees Parlement is geratificeerd, noch definitief vanuit juridisch oogpunt is beoordeeld, komt neer op niets minder dan een opzettelijke omzeiling van democratisch toezicht. Terwijl het Europees Hof van Justitie de zaak nog onderzoekt, cre\u00ebert de Commissie een voldongen feit en omzeilt zij het Parlement. Deze aanpak ontneemt de overeenkomst elke democratische legitimiteit en leidt tot enorme rechtsonzekerheid. Wie op deze wijze handelt, plaatst zichzelf boven de wet en ondermijnt het institutionele evenwicht van de Europese Unie.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cWhat the European Commission is doing here is an unprecedented abuse of power. To put an agreement into provisional effect even though it has neither been ratified by the European […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"esn_date_approx":true,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trade-industry","tag-press-release"],"acf":{"activity_type":"","activity_location":"","related_mep":null,"news_location":"","news_byline":"ESN Group Press Office","news_readtime":"1 min read","news_intro":"The European Commission has announced that it intends to provisionally apply the trade and free trade agreement with the Mercosur bloc, even though it has not yet been ratified by the European Parliament and is currently under legal review by the European Court of Justice. On this, Markus Buchheit, MEP for the ESN Group and member of the Committee on International Trade, stated:","news_photo":2440,"news_photo_caption":""},"yoast_head":"\n