Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-07-03-Speech-2-020"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-07-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Council meeting of 15-16 June 2001 in Göteborg – Swedish presidency2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010703.1.2-020"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-07-03-Speech-2-0212
lpv:speaker	lp:Gianfranco Dell'alba2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; BUDG (2000-11-16--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-10-05--2002-01-14)3 member; CONT (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 co-chair; TGI (1999-07-22--2001-10-02)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, it is by some strange turn of events that the latest protests, a new phenomenon at European summits, reached their climax at Göteborg. 'Strange' because Sweden's various governments have always placed transparency at the heart of European politics, and Sweden has now found itself running the least transparent body, the body to which all the decisions, even the most unimportant, fall, thanks to a false idea of the supremacy of the intergovernmental method. Mr President-in-Office, I hope that your country and you yourself will reflect on this point. When Parliament requests more powers, it does so also in the name of that representativeness which it undoubtedly has and which the governments, in that form – not in general but in that form – do not have. Therefore, from that point of view, Göteborg could be a useful lesson for those governments that are still hesitant about a slightly different vision of Europe, a vision which many Members in this House share. I would like to congratulate the Swedish presidency on one point in particular, and that is the undertaking assumed – which nobody has singled out because it happened rather on the quiet – regarding the International Criminal Court. The Swedish presidency led the Fifteen to adopt a very important common position, a strong position in favour of ratifying not only the International Criminal Court but also the campaign and, three days ago, it also ratified the Court's Statute. This is an undertaking to which I would like to pay tribute because, in this way, Sweden has contributed to the creation of something which, with Milosevic's arrest, is increasingly close to being achieved. Finally, there is one thing that I am glad to see you did not manage to do, and that is to decide the locations – mathematically, Italian style – of the agencies, maybe removing the possibility of locating the Food Agency in Parma and giving it to Helsinki instead. This would have been a mistake which, I am glad to say, did not happen. In any case, "Well done" to the Swedish presidency for its achievements with regard to both climate change and the Court."@en1

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