Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-03-14-Speech-3-016"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-03-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Follow-up to Nice2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010314.1.3-016"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-03-14-Speech-3-0172
lpv:speaker	lp:Monica Frassoni2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-12-16--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Ecolo (Belgium) (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, 2001 is the year of public debate. I am truly amazed that the presidency has not announced an initiative at European level involving civil society. The Internet is not enough, Madam President. There was talk of the possibility of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission organising a great initiative, geared to mobilising civil society to study and write about Europe’s aims and its future. It seems that that initiative has encountered some strange and inexplicable resistance, even within this House from a large group on your left, Madam President. It really is a sin, especially as the utter dearth of ideas the President of the Council has presented to us in – if I may say so – a rather bureaucratic and vague speech, demonstrates how much our governments are in need of some fresh inspiration. Why is Sweden abandoning an initiative which could give its presidency a positive image and also allow it to fulfil the mandate it received at Nice? The dialogue with civil society is a great deal more than a rhetorical flourish or a few e-mails. I agree that we need to have national debates, but there is now such a thing as European public opinion and, at this stage, it needs to mature. This will also facilitate the preparations for the Laeken Council which should be preceded by a great conference of European national parliaments, the natural follow-up to the public debate supposed to have taken place this year. That is the only way to make the debate on the future of Europe public and exciting, and that is the only way Parliament and the Commission will be able to find the allies they so badly need to break the purely intergovernmental logic of the forthcoming reform, give words like ‘convention’ and ‘Community method’ a revolutionary and constitutional meaning and make the 2004 Intergovernmental Conference more than a mere formality. Madam President, please tell us whether or not there is room in your programme for a European initiative like that, and if not, why not?"@en1

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