This prevents countries from taking their own budgetary problems into consideration, when votes are casted on countries that face the same problems. A more far-reaching contribution is to give objective and independent institutions, such as the European Commission and the European Court of Justice, a much stronger role in enforcing the implementation of the budget rules.
The role of the European Court of Justice in this case is not to judge the procedural elements as such, but rather to enforce that individual countries stick to their budgetary commitments. The Dutch government is actively striving to incorporate these changes to the budget rules in the new European Constitution, and I fully support their efforts. Summing up Let me sum up.