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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001025.6.3-148"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-25-Speech-3-1492
lpv:speaker	lp:Luís Marinho2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-president; European Parliament (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Partido Socialista (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and MERCOSUR (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (2000-03-08--2002-01-16)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Although I do not reject the praiseworthy intention of strengthening, clarifying and deepening the European Union and of simplifying the texts so as to bring its workings closer to the citizens, I did not vote in favour of this motion for a resolution. The resolution is essentially like a ‘Pandora’s Box’, as the text does not make it formally clear what purpose it serves or where the real need or urgency for a European Constitution lies. By its very nature a Constitution may, in the form in which it is sometimes contradictorily put forward for Europe, both serve as a way to ‘civilise’ the Union, on the basis of democracy and citizenship, and also be the instrument for a ‘clarification’ of competences, a chalk circle which formally and definitively constrains the Union and its bodies to very particular and specific competences. The constitutionalisation of the Treaties may either bring about the development of the Union and uphold its political competences, or in contrast it may be no more than an enshrined formalisation of the principle of subsidiarity. Strangely, many MEPs and even Prime Minister Blair support a European Constitution. Despite the clarity of Mário Soares’s speech, in which he interpreted this report in its deep European sense, without concessions to easy solutions through highly risky referendums, for which there is no tradition in many Member States, it remains simply an unsullied interpretation by a European of conviction who has made his mark on history. Unfortunately, the text does not match the idea and desire of Portugal’s leading European. This discrepancy, the blame for which lies entirely with the report’s author for not being clear and precise, is at the root of my unease with the text and why I find it politically impossible to vote for it. I would even have voted against it, but this would have been an over-radical way of judging a text as important as this."@en1

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