Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-03-14-Speech-3-215"
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"The Council agrees with the honourable Member that dialogue with the citizens of the EU must be improved in accordance with the decision taken by the European Council in Nice in December 2000.
The declaration to the Final Act of the conference on the future of the EU acknowledges the need to improve and monitor the legitimacy and openness of the Union and its institutions in order to bring them closer to the citizens of the Member States.
As far as the Council’s meetings are concerned, initiatives are being developed to ensure that the discussions will be more open and transparent. This will be achieved through public debates which can mean making deliberations open to the media and EU citizens through live broadcasts via internal TV or, unfortunately less commonly, directly via TV stations. We are also trying to make press conferences and press releases increasingly informative.
Other positive measures to raise the awareness of the public involve creating better access to information via conventional channels and electronically. In this context, on 19 March 2001, the Council is expected to decide to make public certain categories of the Council’s documents. The aim is to make public as many of the Council’s documents as possible on the Internet without waiting for a demand from the public. This decision will enter into force on 1 May 2001.
So a great deal is being done. Despite this, the Council will naturally continue its analysis in order to further improve the dialogue with the EU’s citizens on the Council’s work."@en1
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