Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-12-17-Speech-1-098"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-12-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Council/Belgian Presidency2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011217.3.1-098"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-12-17-Speech-1-0992
lpv:speaker	lp:Ursula Schleicher2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern e.V. (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees for relations with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-07)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Belgian Presidency has without doubt gone to a great deal of effort, yet the lack of a European Community spirit on the part of the fifteen governments in the European Union when it comes to important and urgent decisions is something that cannot be overcome by just one Presidency. The brilliant analysis of the situation and the many questions listed could have come from Parliament's reports on Nice, its aftermath, or Laeken, and they give the impression of having been written down on the spot. These are questions to which Parliament has for years now been demanding answers for the sake of the future of the European Union. Is everything now again being jeopardised by so much questioning? Let us take, for example, common suffrage. The Council has, since July 1998, been examining a European draft electoral law on elections to the European Parliament and has still not come to any conclusion by the end of 2001 – all of two and a half years later. It is raising the question of whether we want European suffrage. Looked at as a whole, there is no doubt that the Convention represents an opportunity, yet Parliament contradicts Laeken by demanding that we should negotiate and reach a decision on the basis of one unitary, coherent proposal. It is equally regrettable that the Heads of State and of Government have again put off until Barcelona and Seville resolutions on the adaptation of the Council's structures and work practices. Reading the Laeken resolutions reminded me of a saying coined by one of our poets, Hans Magnus Enzensberger: ‘He, seated in a common place, / thought up another commonplace.’"@en1

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