Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-03-14-Speech-3-023"

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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.20010314.1.3-023"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-03-14-Speech-3-0242
lpv:speaker	lp:Giorgio Napolitano2
lpv:spokenAs	chair; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; ECON (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Democratici di Sinistra (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Commissioner Barnier’s speech has confirmed how close the positions of the Commission and Parliament are. I listened carefully to the speech made by the representative of the Council, and it is to her that I would like to address a few brief comments. Mrs Lindh, the new IGC is the last thing to be talking about. The important issue is how to get there. You have called for maximum transparency in the debate now beginning and in the whole process described in the Nice Declaration, with a debate as close as possible to the citizens. Well, the preparations for the Intergovernmental Conference before the Nice Summit demonstrated minimum transparency and maximum distance from the citizens. A new method is vital. There is a precedent, which is the Convention for the Charter of Fundamental Rights. That idea came from the Heads of State or Government, felicitously invented by them in Helsinki, so it is hard to understand why those same Heads of State or Government should now mistrust that method. It is not a problem of the name; it is a problem of substance. As well as the Commission, the European Parliament and the national parliaments should be involved not just in the debate but in drafting and drawing up the proposals as well. We should be writing the answers to the great questions on the future of the Union together. Mrs Lindh, we feel sure the Swedish Presidency will want to commit itself to dispelling the extraordinary suspicion meeting every proposal made by any of the groups in the European Parliament. We hope the resolution from the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, and hence from Parliament as a whole, will also help to make you more convinced than you are this morning and, in the meantime, we look forward to our meeting of 20 March with the representatives of the national parliaments of both Member States and candidate countries."@en1

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