Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-09-04-Speech-2-181"
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"Mr President of the Commission, in our common language, the word “governance” does not exist, and it may well be that it does not exist in other European languages either. It could be said that it is revealing – and not just because of the linguistic wrangle which took place this summer – that, despite its best efforts at external openness, transparency and accountability towards the public, the Commission chose, right in the middle of the summer, to adopt a document with an untranslatable title.
There were other terms available which would have been translatable and, most importantly, comprehensible, both linguistically and otherwise: the rule of law, the separation of powers, thorough guidelines for Community mechanisms, democratisation of the Treaties, a European Constitution, legal certainty and so on and so forth. You decided to ignore almost all these pillars of our national States even though, as you know, they are greatly lacking in our European Union system. I hope that “governance” is not going to become a kind of
free-trade Italian-style Constitution which favours partisan ideals, which, as we are quite aware, is the case with the current Italian Constitution.
Civil society, for example, Mr President, is what exposed Israel at Durban, prompting countries to walk out of that conference. Those countries had a sense of responsibility which I did not see in our Union. I do not know whether that is the civil society to which you are referring, but I am somewhat fearful because, as Mr Swoboda said, although, today, you have delivered a very pro-Parliament speech, the text itself contains very few references to Parliament.
It is precisely because I want a strong, authoritative Commission that I am saying this. I do not want it to be reduced to a think tank or, at best, a supervisory body for a couple of industry sectors.
So, Mr President, be bold! In my opinion, this text does not go far enough. This operation will not suffice as it stands: if the rule of law and the legal certainties are to make proper headway in this Union, they must be defined now."@en1
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