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"Mr President, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I, in turn, should like to congratulate Jacques Poos on the excellent report which he has presented to the House and to thank him for the highly democratic manner in which he dealt with the proposals and observations of the other members of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, observations intended to improve the report.
I should like to comment on three points in the report which I consider extremely important. The first is item 9, which refers to the Council's two areas of work, namely the legislative and the executive. I think that Mr Poos is quite right to say that a distinction must be made between the legislative Council, that is, it must be clear when the Council is acting in a legislative capacity and when it is acting in an executive capacity. This is extremely important and, I think, needs to be borne in mind.
The second point concerns collaboration between the Council and the European Parliament. It would be unfair to the Council not to say that certain steps have been taken, but that does not mean that more are not needed. I should like to comment on two paragraphs in Mr Poos' proposals which I think are very important. The first is paragraph 18, which refers to the role and the relations which the High Representative for the CFSP should have with Parliament. I should like to ask the Council to bring Mr Solana to order. The High Representative needs to learn that his relations with Parliament come within a certain framework and are governed by certain rules which he would do well to understand. The second paragraph is Paragraph 19. I was delighted at the excellent example set by the Belgian presidency this morning, when the President-in-Office of the Council reported to the European Parliament in person, and I should like to congratulate Mr Verhofstadt for this morning.
The third point, which I think is very important, is the huge issue of transparency. It is an issue which concerns all the institutional bodies of the European Union. It has been raised by other Members, such as Mrs Malmström, who has done an excellent job on the issue of transparency, as, of course, has Mrs Maij-Weggen, but what I want to say to the Council is that European citizens are not just interested in what the Council decides; they are far more interested in why it decides what it does."@en1
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