Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-10-27-Speech-3-016"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-10-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Outcome of the European Council of 15/16 October in Tampere2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991027.1.3-016"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-10-27-Speech-3-0172
lpv:speaker	lp:Maurizio Turco2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; TGI (1999-07-20--2001-10-02)3 member; Delegation for relations with South Africa (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; PETI (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, once again we have received a Council document which fails to combine the announcement of great and noble principles with their implementation. In Tampere, not only did the reticence and insignificance of the decisions mean that Europe is not being constructed, but the creation of the Europe that we – and I think the citizens of Europe as well – do not want was announced. The much trumpeted area of freedom, security and justice is nothing more than the confirmation of a bureaucratic, repressive view of politics where much is said about security but little about freedom and justice, as demonstrated by the intensive series of Intergovernmental Conferences, Dublin, EUROPOL, EURODAC, EUROJUST and reciprocal assistance on legal matters, none of which are under the democratic control of Parliament, the Commission and the Court of Justice. Once again, you have chosen to let bureaucracy determine policies, and not the other way round, as is the case in the major democracies. Since you have created the European bureaucracy of the right to asylum with the Dublin Convention and with EURODAC, perhaps one day you will finally decide on a European asylum and immigration policy. How can we combat organised crime using the instruments you are proposing? Firstly, the way EUROPOL was established, and its nature as a body which is not covered by democratic and legal control, means that thanks to you it continues to gain new competences, and so EUROPOL has the characteristics of the phenomenon it is intended to combat. As for the actions concerning the fight against drugs for the period 2000-2004, the Council is now urging us to rush through the adoption of this document while, as the Commission itself admits, no systematic and rigorous assessment of the presumed results of the previous plan have been carried out. Not only is the Commission anxious to state that the objective is far from being achieved, but it is also saying that drug trafficking and abuse is on the up, which means that a large part of the money spent up till now has turned out to be an investment not in the fight against drugs but in the spread of drug abuse. And what about freedom? The Council is proposing the implementation of Article 13 of the Treaty of Amsterdam in the most minimalist way possible, by proposing that we give a non-institutional body the responsibility for drawing up a Charter of Fundamental Rights. Ladies and gentlemen of the Council, this is not the Europe we want – an intergovernmental, ademocratic, illiberal Europe which it is the duty of your institution to represent! We, along with Ernesto Rossi and Altiero Spinelli, want the federal United States of Europe of rights, freedom and democracy!"@en1

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