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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	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000119.2.3-043"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-01-19-Speech-3-0442
lpv:speaker	lp:Martin Schulz2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2000-10-26)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2000-10-03)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I am, of course, tempted now to go into what Mr Pirker has said about our expectations of the Council Presidency. It would be amusing but, unfortunately, our time for such statements is limited and I must postpone that until this afternoon. What we are discussing here is the annual report on the area of freedom, security and justice. I therefore have the following request to make of the Portuguese Council Presidency. The Council, not the Council Presidency, denied Parliament a written report on the establishment of an area of freedom, security and justice. An oral motion was tabled, but we have no written reply from the Council, on the grounds that it will suffice if the Council makes an oral statement here today. This behaviour is typical, not of the Council Presidency, but of the Council officials who behave like an authoritarian state towards this Parliament. Authoritarian states tend to say: we the authoritarian representatives shall decide what is and what is not good for the purposes of representing the people. That is precisely what we in this Parliament frequently experience in connection with the area of freedom, security and justice. We have heard this morning from the Portuguese Presidency that it is prepared to work together with the European Parliament in a highly constructive manner in this area and we emphatically welcome this. In my view, everything that the Portuguese Presidency has submitted shows tremendous openness towards the parliamentary institution of the European Union. And that is how it should be; we must be clear, especially in the area of intergovernmental action, which is, of course, still in the Treaty, that, as we extend the area of freedom, security and justice, the European Parliament takes on a central role wherever action is taken which, although intergovernmental, has a direct effect on individual citizens and where national parliaments are less involved than previously. So when a Council Presidency says, as the Portuguese Presidency has done: yes, we acknowledge that, then I think that Parliament cannot but emphatically support that and say, if only all Council Presidencies behaved thus, then relations between Parliament and the Council would improve at this level."@en1

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