Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-14-Speech-2-127"
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"Mr President, I should like to express my substantial agreement with the point just made by Mr Napolitano. It is, when you think of it, odd to suppose that great institutions of this kind could be thought capable of existing without some constitution. Manifestly we do exist and therefore manifestly we already have some kind of a constitution. The question is: do we have an adequate constitution and what kind of constitution do we want? To say we need a constitution is not to say that the European Union should have the constitution of a state, for the Union is not a state and is not about to become one. We all therefore agree that there should be proper recognition of rights within the Union and that this should be binding on the organs and institutions of the Union. The EU organs and institutions can exercise far too much power to permit them that power without the proper control which a Charter of Rights would imply.
There is however one risk. One of the great success stories of Europe is the way in which the European Court of Justice, especially when other institutions were blocked, succeeded in building the concept of Europe as a Community under the law.
If we create a Charter of Rights that overloads the Court of Justice, that has everybody beating a path every week to Luxembourg, we will destroy the purpose. We must ensure that the main avenue for protecting rights is in the national courts and in a supervisory jurisdiction as exercised at European level. If we do not succeed in that, we will fail in everything."@en1
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