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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Votes2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990915.9.3-105"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-15-Speech-3-1062
lpv:speaker	lp:Robert Goebbels2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 member; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-22--2001-03-13)3 unknown; Parti ouvrier socialiste luxembourgeois (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to explain why I abstained during the vote on the resolution. The resolution includes one point (b) which, in my opinion, undermines an essential foundation block of European institutional architecture: the Commission’s right of initiative, since the Commission must act as a College and have the sole right to put forward European legislation. Parliament believes it has won a great victory since it has obtained the guarantee that President Prodi is going to take account of the legislative initiatives of the European Parliament. This initiative of Parliament’s will surely not fail to elicit requests for the same consideration from Member States and national bureaucracies. You will see that as soon as this happens, the pressure exerted by the capitals of Europe upon the Commission will become greater than the pressure exerted by the European Parliament. I believe we must do all in our power to defend the Commission’s right of initiative, otherwise it will be no more than a mailbox, a merely executive body. This Parliament has considerable political influence on the Commission as long as it remains a political body, but this will no longer be the case when the Commission’s right of initiative is weakened."@en1

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