Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-13-Speech-2-051"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-02-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Commission work programme for 2001/Nice2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010213.2.2-051"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-02-13-Speech-2-0522
lpv:speaker	lp:Robert Goebbels2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)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) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 member; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 chair; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2001-01-16--2001-11-29)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-22--2001-03-13)3 unknown; Parti ouvrier socialiste luxembourgeois (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, unfortunately I am forced to reiterate the observation I made last year to the effect that the European Union has no clear plan for the future. I do not say this as a rebuke to President Prodi or the Commission, because the Commission is most certainly working or, should I say, making itself busy. Indeed it is almost making itself busy with too many matters. No one could possibly keep up with all the Green Papers, White Papers, communications and reports that the Commission and the Commissioners keep presenting, and it is impossible, more particularly, to find in all this a main theme, or a clear plan for the future. Hence, my first conclusion is that we should do less and we should do it better. As President Prodi quite rightly said this morning, we should not be expending our energy on measuring the size of cucumbers and gherkins. As a matter of urgency, we should be defining who is responsible for doing what within the European Union, in other words defining the principle of subsidiarity. And the Commission, even with good legal reasons to do so, cannot obstruct the decision of a national parliament to have a motorway built, a regional parliament decision to have a new railway built or a town council decision to build a golf course: that is what subsidiarity is. The Commission President appreciated as much this morning, he asked good questions, but his role is not to ask questions. The Commission has the right of initiative and must present proposals. I do not have time to go into matters in greater detail, but I have to say that if we wish to build the new House of Europe, then we do not just need joiners and plumbers, what we need as well, and more importantly, is an architect. My hope, Mr Prodi, is that, as President of the Commission, you will be this architect. ("@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Applause)"1

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