LAWS should not be made behind closed doors but that is what our Ministers do when they get together in Brussels. Draft EU legislation has to be approved or amended both by the European Parliament and by the Council of Ministers. While MEPs meet in public the Ministers debate in secret. How can they be held to account if no-one knows what they have been saying? To bring about an improvement all that is needed is a simple change in the standing orders of ministerial meetings. Britain holds the presidency of the EU until the end of the year and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is the man who can propose the reform. Making a change to inject a bit more openness and transparency into the law-making process would surely be a worthwhile achievement. Graham Watson MEP Member of the European Parliament for South West England and Gibraltar and Leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the European Parliament