Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-03-01-Speech-4-022"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-03-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Air strikes in Iraq2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010301.1.4-022"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-03-01-Speech-4-0232
lpv:speaker	lp:Bill Newton Dunn2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, actions such as we are debating today must be underpinned by democratic legitimacy. I am sure that we all agree. The problem is how to do it. At the moment the CFSP is a mixture of national attitudes and European attitudes and the particular subject we are debating today of course only involves one single Member State of the European Union. So how do we provide the democratic legitimacy when we are all involved? Two or three weeks ago there was a Conference in Stockholm of the chairmen of the defence committees of the fifteen national parliaments and the European Parliament to debate exactly this question – how to exercise democratic control over European policies and foreign affairs and defence. Although no conclusion could be reached in a single day, I can tell you that they have set up a working party between the chairmen and intend to meet again and to come up with a conclusion. This Parliament has proposed various mechanisms for introducing this legitimacy. We have proposed setting up an interparliamentary body between members of the NATO Assembly and our Foreign Affairs Committee. Another proposal has been a joint interparliamentary body between national parliaments and Members of this Parliament. I very much welcomed the statement just now from the President-in-Office saying that this Parliament must play a role. But what I would greatly appreciate from the Presidency is a statement of how precisely they plan to do this, because in the various treaties we have had recently and the European Councils, there has been no suggestion of how this might be achieved."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Israel (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2001-01-15--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Liberal Democrat Party (2000-11-29--2004-07-19)3 member; ELDR (2000-11-29--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Newton Dunn (ELDR )."1

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