The use of the Community method rather than the intergovernmental approach makes our governance more democratic.

We have yet to find out how difficult the intergovernmental approach will be in the case of the competitiveness pact.

What we have now is an intergovernmental approach without a sanction mechanism and that will not work.

It is that the former second pillar, with its rather intergovernmental approach, be integrated into the Community method.

That means that we also see the weakness of the intergovernmental approach.

I certainly do not understand how they can sit in this hemicycle and defend an intergovernmental approach.

Absolutely everything is based on an intergovernmental approach.

Firstly, the danger of a shift towards an intergovernmental approach.

For once it seems to accept the intergovernmental approach as the most viable, and we can only rejoice at that.

The fact that only an intergovernmental approach is being adopted on such an important subject is worrying.

As regards the 2006 budget, Parliament rejects the intergovernmental approach in relation to the financial perspective.

The Treaty has deficiencies which can, unfortunately, only be resolved by taking an intergovernmental approach, because of the circumstances that have already been described.

We had to resolve the almost antagonistic contradiction between the Community approach and the intergovernmental approach.

Furthermore, the Portuguese Presidency has proved that it does not want to see a shift towards an intergovernmental approach.

It goes without saying that the Council and the Member States take more of an intergovernmental approach, while we prefer the Community approach.

When Germany and France failed to respect the rules governing the stability pact in 2003-4, this proved that the intergovernmental approach was not the right one.

If we failed to do so, we would be allowing the intergovernmental approach to sneak in by the back door, which is something we do not want.

An intergovernmental approach means no, or hardly any, parliamentary legitimacy and results in a complete inability to act in many areas due to the requirement for unanimity.

Everyone is in agreement about the disappointing results of the last IGC, which are symptomatic of the limitations of the purely intergovernmental approach.

"This arrangement will also ensure a more coordinated intergovernmental approach," the secretary says, "in the acquisition of antiviral drugs and predeployment stockpiles of antivirals around the nation."

In spite of being a former member of the EEC-three-first-year Commission, he matured a vision of the integration process which surpass the intergovernmental approach.

My group wants the EU approach to be promoted over the intergovernmental approach in all these areas, quite simply because it is far more effective and far more sustainable.

The Lisbon Strategy makes use of the aforementioned open method of coordination, a form of intergovernmental approach that is mainly based on best practices, benchmarking and peer review.

Our idea is that we should accept the intergovernmental approach as a transitional solution. This is connected with the powers of the institutions and, specifically, the Commission on this issue.

The debates between those, on the one hand, who favour an intergovernmental approach, and on the other, the proponents of federalism, bear no relation to the realities of the EU.