1. Deplores the fact that Russia and China have exercised their veto in the UN Security Council to block the draft resolution on Syria, thus voting against the peaceful transition proposal by the Arab League; this was perceived by the Assad regime as license to aggravate the repressive means on the ground using heavy weapons and indiscriminate force against unarmed civilians; reiterates its call on the UNSC members, in particular ...[+++] Russia and China, to uphold their responsibilities to ensure that the violent repression of the Syrian people should cease immediately; continues to support the efforts of the EU and its Member States in this field;

5. Consider imbalanced the position of the Commission that “shareholders own companies” and thus should have absolute veto rights on major decisions; tends to prefer the European continental approach that shareholders own shares to provide investments for companies, but that companies and their one-tier or two-tier management structures have a broader mission than only making profits for their shareholders; requests a broader fun ...[+++]damental debate about the ownership – control relationship and the European traditions of company law;

3. Disputes the position taken by the Commission that ‘shareholders own companies’ and thus should have absolute veto rights on major decisions. Tends to prefer the continental European view that shareholders own shares, notes that they often have a restricted focus on their own financial interests at the stock market, whereas the one-tier or two-tier managements of companies have a broader mission than only making profits for their shareholders; and urges a more fundamental debate about the ownership-control relationship and the ...[+++] European traditions of company law, and a more in-depth analysis of the impact of the major differences in company financing in Europe, particularly between the Anglo-Saxon tradition, where a dispersed share ownership via the financial markets is dominant, and the continental tradition characterised by a major role for banks and majority shareholders.

Especially objectionable would be a flight from QMV concerning the provisions on social security for migrant workers; the suppression of codecision from the clauses on the framework programme for research and development; the re-insertion of the national veto and the suspension of the legislative rights of this Parliament in the field of judicial cooperation in criminal matters; and the unwelcome supplement to the progressive passerelle clauses of a right of veto for any single national parliament – a certain recipe for frustrating the decisions of the European Council and for bringing on the ...[+++]ultimate sclerosis of the European political system.

Secondly, there would need to be an internal rule ensuring that the other continents cannot impose a budget on the European Union but instead that we have a right of veto, and a right to examine proposals.

Enhanced Cooperation: the Treaty of Nice has made the enhanced cooperation system more flexible (less strict conditions, removal of the right to veto, more fields of application).