Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-10-03-Speech-2-019"
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"Madam President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Mr President of the Commission, I am with you completely, Mr Prodi, when you highlight the limitations of the current intergovernmental model, and I would go even further in my criticism than you. It is, in many ways, a timeworn, if not fossilised system that we must leave behind. But the way forward certainly does not lie in the centralisation of powers in the hands of the Commission. In my view, it is the institutional system as a whole, including the Commission, that should be transformed, and the new factor that must lie at the heart of these changes are the operators that form part of the social movement, the citizens, those people who were notably absent from your speech.
I would urge you to listen very closely to what I say next. “Ordinary people have realised that a certain model of public administration ... has reached its limits.” “This crisis of governance has hit the Union head-on.” “The Union was founded and is still being constructed behind closed doors rather than in the open.” But “Europeans are less and less willing to be presented with a
.” “What has to become democratic is the whole process, from pinpointing the basic problem to implementing and assessing the solution.” “A case of ... letting the key players and interests play a greater part.” This is “the political challenge confronting Europe today”.
These are not my own words. They are taken from a document that was commissioned by your predecessor, President Santer, almost two years ago from the Commission’s own Forward Studies Unit, before being shelved. I nevertheless find it extremely clear-sighted. Our ambition should be to convince the people of Europe to join together in their diversity and thus become masters of their common destiny.
It is my belief that if we are to succeed we need a participatory democracy, social advances, bonds of solidarity, designs for civilisation and ethical inspiration. I have heard no mention of these this morning. In short, we need politics in the true sense of the word, since it is on this that the future of Europe hinges."@en1
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