One month ago, the 13th of December, the ECJ in Luxembourg rejected the plan of the European Parliament to reduce the number of trips to Strasbourg because it could not be considered to satisfy a legal requirement in the EU treaties about the number of plenary sessions that must be held each year in Strasbourg.

This Wednesday Commission President Barroso held his "State of the Union-speech". You would imagine that this would be a rather painful task. To evaluate the status of EU 2012 is not to be taken lightly:  The Euro has devastated the economies; the open borders has created a safe haven for the criminals; and for the sixteenth time the Court of Auditors has declared that they were not able to sign of the budget.

Vice chairman of the AFCO Committee Morten Messershmidt, Member of the EFD Group is the author of a Report, adopted by this Committee, on the proposal for a regulation amending the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union. One of his propositions is to allow dissenting opinions in the ECJ, as it exists and work for example in the Supreme Court of the US or the Court of Human rights in Strasbourg. He stresses why this reform is more than necessary in the highest European jurisdiction and the impact on the quality and the authority of its decisions.

The Left did fairly well in today's election in Denmark on 15th September, and the Social Democrats without winning, will be able to form the next government. The Danish People’s Party, which Mep Morten Messershmidt is member, will be a "tough opposition".