After her conviction by the European Parliament, Mitsotakis government and the prime minister himself many times have tried to charge “political games” in the European Parliament by presenting as more “objective” the European Commission.
Characteristically, the government representative P. Marinakis had recently argued that “the rule of law is evaluated in Greece, as in all European states, by the report on the rule of law by the European Commission” and that the legislative initiatives taken by our country recent years “both at the level of the rule of law and at the level of freedom of the press were evaluated positively by the last annual report”.
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He charged the MEPs of other countries who “belong to certain formations” that they “follow a specific policy and in the context of this policy they slander Greece”, that “we can prove with our policies why all this is not true”.
However, in a recent report the European Court of Auditors (ECA) reported that the European Commission’s current assessments lack transparency and documentation.
According to the ECA report, the Commission’s publicly available methodology “offers limited value” to stakeholders and there is room for the Commission to better explain publicly how it is proceeding with its assessments to “increase transparency and accountability”.
More specifically, the ECA underlines that the Commission has scope “to improve the evidence flow of the assessment process by better documenting how the Commission decides what evidence to rely on and what issues to consider, and how it assesses the seriousness of these issues,” the report says.
According to the ECA report, EU countries “can comment” on their draft rule of law report before it is published, “but they do not see the recommendations in advance, so they do not have the opportunity to accept or reject them”.
The author and coordinator of Parliament’s resolution, Dutch MEP Sophie In’t Veld, who was also one of the figures pushing for the implementation of the Commission’s rule of law report, accused the Commission of political bias on Wednesday (February 27 ) during a press conference.
“What we see happening now is that the European Commission is still letting political considerations come into play,” he said.
Speaking to Euractiv, in fact the Dutch MEP specifically noted referring to our country: “Greece is really the country I’m most worried about right now.”
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