Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-13-Speech-2-042"
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"Mr President, there are, not unnaturally, different assessments in this Parliament regarding the Treaty of Nice, but even those who are highly critical of the Treaty – and there are many – will agree in this debate on the future of Europe that the best way forward is to use the post-Nice procedures and to make the most of them to improve our Union, to rectify the shortcomings of Nice and to have a proper debate on the future of the Union.
The way that this should be done – and my views are very close to those of the Commission – is to have a first-year wide-open debate – let a thousand flowers bloom – then move to a broad, deliberative body that will draft the changes that are necessary. This could be composed in the same way as the convention that produced and composed the Charter of Rights with representatives of the European Parliament and national parliaments and governments. Finally, there would be a short, sharp IGC to approve the results at the end.
Obviously, we will be dealing with the four issues that were mentioned by the European Council including one issue which overlaps very much with the Commission's White Paper on governance. I would be interested to hear the Commission's views on how these two processes are going to tie in to each other, because there is a degree of overlap there.
There will also be other issues that should be addressed. The future of the High Representative, the question of extending the codecision powers of Parliament to all legislative procedures, taking in those few that are now by anomaly left out. We must also look at the issue of codification of the Treaties. I would plead for a special procedure. This year, why not set up a committee of experts from the Member States and the institutions to complete the task that was started in Florence of codifying and simplifying the Treaties so that the political work next year can start on the basis of a text that is already simplified and codified? The technical work would thus be out of the way before we move on to the political work. I would advocate that way forward."@en1
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