This spurs us to maintain that the European Parliament would have done sterling work in guaranteeing that civil rights and freedoms were safeguarded, if this were a lawmaking parliament and if we were, as part of this procedure, in fact co-legislators - which we are not.
Dette får os til at mene, at Europa-Parlamentet ville have gjort et godt stykke arbejde for at sikre beskyttelsen af borgernes rettigheder og frihedsrettigheder, hvis ellers vores Parlament var et lovgivende parlament, og hvis vi i denne procedure netop var medlovgivere, hvilket vi ikke er.