European Parliament
Gay Mitchell (PPE-DE ). –
Would the President-in-Office agree that, if any other legislature in the European Union took decisions and then issued its minutes and some notes about what discussions had gone on and offered to put the information on an Internet site, people would think there was something very undemocratic and shady about it? Is it not time once and for all for the Council of Ministers to meet in public on all these matters when it acts as legislator? I appreciate the progress that has been made, but it is totally unacceptable in the 21st century that legislation continues to be made in this way.

