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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-10-25"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001025.6.3-160"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-25-Speech-3-1612
lpv:speaker	lp:Gérard Caudron2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (1999-07-20--2002-07-09)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (1999-07-20--2002-01-16)3 substitute; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3
lpv:translated text	". We should remember that the mechanism now known as reinforced cooperation already existed well before the Treaty of Amsterdam. The rapporteur rightly stresses that the Commission’s power of initiative, the full participation of the European Parliament and legal control by the Court of Justice must be the rule for all forms of reinforced cooperation. If used intelligently, this instrument can be a way out of the current deadlock affecting the European Union. Indeed, some Member States that wanted to deepen their cooperation and go beyond the integration provided for in the Treaties developed various instruments, such as the Social Chapter, the Schengen Agreements, Economic and Monetary Union, etc. This enabled them to advance at different rates and/or with different objectives. With the entry into force of the Treaty of Amsterdam, the use of these instruments was formalised by the introduction of the concept of ‘closer cooperation’ into the Treaty on European Union (Title VII) and the Treaty establishing the European Community (Article 11). The objective of this form of cooperation is to allow a limited number of Member States that are able and willing to move forward to deepen European integration, provided they respect the European Union’s single institutional framework. In fact, Europe is finding it more and more difficult to move forward at the same pace. So we must avoid slowing down the general pace and therefore allow some Member States to move forward by developing the mechanism of reinforced cooperation. Resorting to this instrument is tied to conditions designed to avoid turning the European Union into an or multi-speed Europe, a legitimate anxiety which lies at the heart of debates on this issue. We must point out that reinforced cooperation, as provided for in the Treaty of Amsterdam, must in particular concern an area that does not come within the Community’s exclusive purview, must be aimed at furthering the objectives of the Union, must respect the principles of the Treaties and must be used only as a last resort while concerning a majority of Member States. Reinforced cooperation could have an important role to play in the framework of an enlarged Europe. However, as these provisions now stand, this mechanism cannot function correctly. That is why the reform of this instrument has been entered on the agenda of the IGC with a view to making it easier to use. The report before us tends to consolidate Parliament’s position in this respect (resolution of 13 April 2000). In particular, that means abolishing the right of veto and making it possible to resort to cooperation when it concerns at least one third of Member States and also extending reinforced cooperation to the common foreign and security policy."@en1
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