It Is Currently An Engine Of Regulation, And Needs To Be Made Accountable To

It is currently an engine of regulation, and needs to be made accountable to individual Member States in this area. We support increased scrutiny powers of the EP over the Commission, giving the Parliament the right to dismiss individual commissioners found guilty of incompetence or wrong-doing, and examine any and all EU documents with follow-up rights of inquiry. We further believe individual citisens and citisen groups should have the right to appeal to the EP regarding EU legislation (Howard 2005).
Liberal Democrat: The EP is growing in power, but this is an expected development as the EU matures. They represent the views of most of Europe well, but could be more open and accountable in areas they are considering and how decisions are made (LD 2005a).

What do you think of European Commission?

Labour: The European Commission tends to act in a vacuum, not fully engaging the EP or member nations in its decisions. We support reform of the Commission, to make it more responsive to its constituents. However, issues surrounding the Commission should not be allowed to derail participation in the EU (LP 2005).
Conservative: The Commission has far too much power, and little accountability. As such it is dominated by a group of elitists not appropriately representing Member States or their citisens (CP 2005).
Liberal Democrat: Right now the Commission has too much power and is not open enough in its activities. This is one reason it is so important to ratify the constitution. It would limit and define EU power whilst increasing power of national parliaments over the Commission. In addition, some of the Commission's duties and power would be more effective if transferred to national parliaments (LD 2005b). Also, accusations of fraud need to be investigated swiftly and accurately, with appropriate resignations if proved true (Graham 2003).
What do you think of the Council of Ministers?
Labour: As with the European Commission, the Council of Ministers can be an effective body. It would benefit from greater support from both member nations and Europe's people. It is of important note that in recent European elections nearly one half of voters backed anti-Europe parties (Titley 2004).
Conservative: The Council of Ministers, like the European Commission, primarily engages in churning out regulations and directives, often not in British best interests. They are unregulated and unsupervised, and seem to spend quite a time concealing what they are up to (Howard 2005).
Liberal Democrat: In general, the Council of Ministers acts in the best interests of Europe as a whole (LD 2005a).
As you probably know, the UK has a reputation for being an awkward partner and has a history of being Euro-skeptic. Does this influence your party's position in EU at all? And does this influence the attitudes of politicians in your party at all?