EXPERTS BLAMED BY MR SPAAK
ROME, November 5. Mr Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium), president of the embryo West European Parliament at Strasbourg, said to-night that democracy was being imperilled in Western Europe by the experts. He bitterly criticised the 13 Foreign Ministers and their deputies—who have been meeting in Rome for the last two days bs the Upper House of the Strasbourg Council of Europe—for passing on to committees of experts every proposal for European integration. “The question of the experts has become one of our major problems.” he said. “Since the war, the Ministers have shown an alarming tendency to leave to the experts the taking of decisions which should be theirs.” Mr Spaak particularly criticised the failure of the Committee of Ministers to include in the Convention on Human Rights the three freedoms recommended by the European Assembly: (1) freedom of parents to educate their children as they wish; (2) the right to free political elections; (3) th'e right to own property.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26266, 10 November 1950, Page 7
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