Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-01-19-Speech-3-029"

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dcterms:Date	"2000-01-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Action programme of the Portuguese Presidency including the situation in Angola2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20000119.2.3-029"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-01-19-Speech-3-0302
lpv:speaker	lp:Jens-Peter Bonde2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; CONT (1999-07-21--2001-04-23)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 member; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; JuniBevægelsen (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Presidents (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 co-chair; EDD (1999-07-20--2001-01-29)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, there is now a timetable for an extended European Union, but what we need is a timetable for more democracy. On 10 February, Portugal will submit a proposal for inclusion in the agenda for the Intergovernmental Conference. On 14 February, the Conference begins. On 24 February, the foreign ministers meet, and subsequently they are to meet in this way each month in order, at all events, to discuss five important subjects. First of all, there is the question of majority decision making. In how many of the 65 areas in which we at present require unanimity will there, in future, be majority decision making so that the democracies in our Member States can be voted down by ministers and officials behind closed doors in Brussels? Secondly, there is the composition of the Commission. There will still be a Commissioner for each country, but the small countries will be offered junior portfolios more often than not. Thirdly, there is the question of the weighting of votes in the Council of Ministers, the composition of Parliament and the Court of Justice. The five largest countries will perhaps obtain 25% more votes in the Council, even if every country, of course, loses as many with the enlargement of the Union. Fourthly, there will be reinforced cooperation. Portugal and other federalist countries will press for a majority of the Member States’ being able to develop the partnership, even if some countries should be opposed to it, and this will essentially entail the abolition of the right of veto on important issues. Fifthly, there is a legal department which will deal with everything which the Member States submit and, at the Porto Summit in June, it will be possible to widen the agenda to include what was decided at the Helsinki Summit. All this will lead to a new Treaty on European Union, replacing the Treaty of Amsterdam by the year 2003. It will be adopted in Nice on 8 December this year, but it will hardly be unless the voters reshuffle the cards. That is what we in my Group here in Parliament, the Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities, are urging should happen, as is our common intergroup of like-minded people which is called SOS Democracy, for it is SOS Democracy that is needed and not more bureaucratic power in Brussels."@en1
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