Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-11-17-Speech-3-243"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Treaty reform/next IGC2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991117.7.3-243"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-17-Speech-3-2442
lpv:speaker	lp:Pervenche Berès2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Parti socialiste (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in our debate on the mandate for the forthcoming IGC, I would firstly like to say a few words on an issue which is not on this Conference’s agenda but that, I think, our Chamber will have to consider, when the day comes, in order to study and evaluate the results of the whole exercise. This is the issue of the reform of the Council, of the whole package of reforms which, we have been told, must and can take place in addition to a reform of the Treaties. Fine. Let us set out on this path, but let us do so with a reasonable timetable that is the same timetable that the IGC has. My group has tabled an amendment to this effect and I hope that, tomorrow, our Chamber will be able to vote for it. With regard to the three “left-over” questions, do we think today that we are in a position to answer the question to which the Amsterdam Summit could not find a solution? What is this question? We must have the courage to ask it. It is perhaps less a question of how to function than of what it is that we want to do together when there are sixteen or twenty-seven of us. If we do not answer this question, we will not find a solution to the three questions “left over” from Amsterdam. At any event, preparing the Union for the forthcoming enlargement opens up a question outstanding from Amsterdam, and that is the question of strengthened cooperation. Because, apart from the three institutional questions, which are already part of the IGC’s mandate, nobody in the context of the Amsterdam assessment has been able to tell us if the solutions that we had arrived at concerning the operation of this strengthened cooperation were satisfactory. We must work towards a reform of this strengthened cooperation which will allow the Union to establish a real vanguard, open within the Union, in order to continue to make progress towards the security, democracy and stability of our continent."@en1

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