Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-10-27-Speech-3-059"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-10-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Report on the IGC2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991027.2.3-059"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-10-27-Speech-3-0602
lpv:speaker	lp:Monica Frassoni2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Ecolo (Belgium) (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Commissioner Barnier, the Dehaene report contains positive and negative points, like almost everything in life. I would like to add that the main ideas have been advanced by the European Parliament for decades, so it does not seem particularly original. I would like to make the most of my short speaking time to invite you and President Prodi to reflect on the risks we are running in only talking to the governments and trying to convince them alone, especially the most reluctant ones, and always trying to combine realism and credibility in proposals which are often ambiguous and moderate. In my view, it is worrying that even the Wise Men, who no longer have any obligations to anyone, consider trying to reach a compromise as a priority and that they want to play a part which is not theirs. I hope that in the proposal that you put to us, the Commission and yourself will have the courage to aim higher and that you will be able to justify the need to establish a constitutional section in the founding texts of the European Union with something more inspiring than the mere reorganisation of the confused texts of the Treaties. I am sorry that President Dehaene could not find this courage. I also hope that the Commission will be able to free itself of the inefficient and anachronistic pillar structure and clearly refute the extremely odd idea which the Wise Men put forward, that Parliament’s power of codecision is legitimised only under the first pillar. The courage to seek alliances and a consensus outside the palaces of power, among the people, and in this Parliament, is a challenge that the Commission must accept. If it does not, we will all lose."@en1

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