The European Parliament is the representative of “European Peoples” and their interests and political affiliations. The European Parliament has a legitimising and supervisory function as well since it is the only directly elected EU institution by the people. Accordingly, it provides democratic legitimacy and control to the whole of the European integration process. It exercises legislative and budgetary functions together with the Council and has some consultative functions too. Moreover, it exercises the functions of political/democratic control over the other EU institutions.