Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-30-Speech-3-111"
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"Mr President, I should like to thank Mr Méndez de Vigo and Mr Seguro.
Nice was in many ways a failure and, in my view, the IGC method is obsolete. Nevertheless, we will be voting in favour of the resolution, for Nice has created the minimum conditions for enlargement. Those who have suffered under that dictatorship for too long should not suffer under our lack of sufficient internal reforms.
Another reason for casting a positive vote is because what seemed inconceivable until six months ago, even in this House, is now increasingly becoming a possibility in Laeken, namely a true convention of the European Parliament, the national parliaments, the governments, the European Commission, together with the social organisations and the citizens. The citizen’s input is crucial to ensure that the convention does not degenerate into a technical debate for experts which is unintelligible to the citizen.
Mr President, that convention may not turn into a no-strings-attached talk shop: practical compromises must be reached which only in the final stage are rounded off formally by the IGC.
Prior to that convention, we, as European Parliament, will this autumn have to put our own specific ideas about Europe’s future on the table, and the resolution is right to point this out. I would like the following: a European government whose prime minister is elected with a mandate on all matters which are best dealt with jointly, for example agriculture. This would lead to more political integration and a new European federation. I also want more subsidiarity, however, for that means that we will be better able to meet the local and regional needs.
More than anything, I want more democracy. A valuable, powerful, democratic European Parliament, elected by the European citizens, with codecision in all areas of policy, and with a European constitution founded on the Fundamental Rights Charter.
Mr President, we have a fine future ahead of us, and I believe that we did some sterling work in this resolution. I therefore hope that we as a group will be achieving a decent majority for a better approach."@en1
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