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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-11-29"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation of Nice European Council and trade policy2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001129.7.3-046"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-11-29-Speech-3-0472
lpv:speaker	lp:Gianfranco Dell'alba2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; BUDG (2000-11-16--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Conference of Presidents (1999-07-22--2000-12-31)3,3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-10-05--2002-01-14)3,3 member; CONT (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 co-chair; TGI (1999-07-22--2001-10-02)3,3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, I am speaking on behalf of the radical Members of the Group. Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Mr President of the Commission, it appears that all the speeches, including the last one, although from the most extreme positions opposite to my own nevertheless come to the same conclusion, and that is that, just a few days away from the Nice Summit, we are not on the finishing straight but, rather than resolving our problems by this antiquated intergovernmental conference method – which, as has been stressed, must be changed – rather than approaching good solutions, we have complicated matters and proposed solutions which are frankly unacceptable. I refer, of course, to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, a Charter upon which we abstained precisely because we knew that you were bound to sweep it under the carpet after the Nice Summit, having deceived our peoples into believing that it was a binding document protecting and promoting rights. You do not even intend to incorporate it into the Treaty, evidence indeed that this text, this exercise was always destined to be laid aside. We are also concerned by the future of the Commission, the driving force of European integration which, when expanded to 20, 25 or 30 members, will clearly be reduced to an administrative secretariat, a technical secretariat of the Council, a body unable to play even the tiniest role in the institutional balance intended by the founding fathers. Over qualified majority voting and weighting, there will, in all probability, be vetos from all sides which will paralyse the demands of Parliament and the public for a move towards democratisation of our system, towards making majority voting the general rule. I therefore appeal to President Prodi, who has rightly promised that he will tell us in Strasbourg whether or not the Commission will be able act effectively, whether or not the Union will be able to act effectively after the Nice Summit. President Prodi, you are going to take part in the Nice Summit, you will in a way be the expression of the will of Parliament, albeit a timidly expressed will, the will which tomorrow will become clear when we vote on the document which has resulted from the compromise between groups and which we have not signed. Mr Prodi, present your objections to the Summit, assume the responsibility, not of establishing a role for us as the post-Nice panel of judges, but of playing right to the very last the card of defending first and foremost the European institutions, the Commission and Parliament in particular."@en1

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