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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-01-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Action programme of the Portuguese Presidency including the situation in Angola2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000119.2.3-036"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-01-19-Speech-3-0372
lpv:speaker	lp:Olivier Dupuis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2000-01-17--2002-01-14)3 member; PETI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees for relations with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; TGI (1999-07-20--2001-10-02)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, I must firstly congratulate you on one particular initiative of the Portuguese Presidency. This concerns the first Europe-India summit which, quite significantly, no one has mentioned. This is a fundamental initiative. My fellow Members, as they did with the Soviet Union, currently favour continuing discussions with China. Yet the majority of Western companies are in the process of withdrawing from this country. We are continuing to give the red carpet treatment to Beijing and yet are blind to the fact that we could achieve, as you wish, a strategic agreement with India. In terms of the IGC, Mr Poettering was obviously in a humorous mood this morning when he said that if the three leftover issues were resolved during the next Council, this would be a success for the European Union. You would really have to be short-sighted not to realise that if we do not tackle this fundamental question of constitutional codecision and that if we do not devise a mechanism which is worthy of parliamentary discussion, then the EU will soon, with 28, 30 or even 32 members, end up totally paralysed. I therefore invite you, Mr Gama, not to pay too much attention to this long list of points to which several Members want to add and of which you are already aware. You should, if possible, restrict yourself to introducing this one point which can guarantee that the European Union does not become paralysed in the future. I have something to say to the Members who want a gesture from you on the question of our two representatives at the Intergovernmental Conference. It is time that we realised that we cannot strengthen institutional dialogue through representatives, but that we have a duty to demand that the European Union is based on proper parliamentary mechanisms. There must be a dialogue between Parliament and the Council which is worthy of this name and is not solely composed of small victories in forcing insignificant points, or not such insignificant points, onto the agenda of an Intergovernmental Conference."@en1

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