Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-10-25-Speech-4-097"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VOTE2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011025.1.4-097"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-25-Speech-4-0982
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2000-11-09--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". As former Luxembourg minister, Mr Poos knows how the Council works, and he has put this to good use. He is right to raise the matter of meeting behind closed doors, which is inconsistent with the principles of democracy and openness. He also proposes that joint committees only prepare resolutions instead of taking them themselves. He also wants the strange new post of High Representative for the common foreign and security policy, which is developing into a European super-minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence, but which cannot be called to account politically in this area, to be integrated into the European Commission's portfolio for external relations. Mr Poos limits himself to what is feasible within the existing treaties and the current power relations, because this would be able to be achieved quickly. I support him in this. However, even if these reforms are implemented, the Council remains an absurdity, a remnant from the early days of the three European Communities, which is backing out of national parliaments the EP. National ministers used to act as negotiators on the formation of an interest grouping and were also entitled to exercise their veto rights. They no longer have this in their current function, in which they act as a senate which cannot be called to account and a government at the same time. The national parliaments must take over their task. The continued existence of the Council will have an adverse effect on parliamentary democracy."@en1

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