Accountability Quote by David Cameron

All of us in Parliament now have a responsibility to get on with the process of leaving the EU and securing a more prosperous…

— Liz Truss

In many European countries we have populist indirect democratic systems. The people elect, in a proportionate manner, a parliament. The parliament with all its…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

Well, that's the way democracy works. We have to build this Europe with the material we have at our disposal. And this material is…

— Timothy Garton Ash

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

— David Cameron

For me, arguably, the European Parliament is the best-functioning European institution. They are extremely good at law-making; they're extremely good at finding compromise under…

— Frans Timmermans

For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper…

— Larry Siedentop

“And yet, for all its faults as a system of indirect government, the Union has certain interesting and original attributes. Decisions and laws may…

— Tony Judt

The European Union has become a prison of peoples. Each of the 28 countries that constitute it has slowly lost its democratic prerogatives to…

— Marine Le Pen

Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both…

— Pratibha Patil

“It could be argued that Parliament is an agency of the EU and therefore the theft of our money by our MPs is a…

— David Craig

Europe has shown how government can be organised in a network. Its institutions both compete and co-operate and include a directly elected parliament that…

— Geoff Mulgan

The parliament is the supreme decision-making and legislative body in any democracy. It reflects the collective desires of the citizens and makes laws.

— Ziauddin Sardar