Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-02-06-Speech-3-170"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-02-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Relations between the EP and national parliaments2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020206.8.3-170"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-02-06-Speech-3-1712
lpv:speaker	lp:Hans-Peter Martin2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-02-11)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-02-11)3 unknown; parteilos (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, our new President, Pat Cox, has called on us to show understanding for each other in debate if possible. I will try to do so even though I only have one and a half minutes. Mr Voggenhuber spoke about how the issue of the national parliaments was brought into play again and again, and I think one must add in the factor that there is of course understandable jealousy and frustration in the national parliaments, which leads to those who come to us joining in an artificial protest. A clear delimitation of competences would help there. The Convention is also urged to ensure that the parliamentarians are not played off against each other, but that in what is done they should follow the lead we have consistently given. To Mr Abitbol, who is constantly lamenting the democratic deficit in the EU, I would like to say that there the argument is being turned around precisely the wrong way. The fact that we have this democratic deficit does not mean that we have to bring the national aspect more into play, but that we need all the things we are demanding in this House, such as more democratic institutions, or else we will come to utterly false conclusions and hand Europe's citizens over to precisely those things that the European democracies and the people who care about diversity do not want, that is, being ruled unilaterally by powers subject to no control, in this instance economic forces. My final point is that that it is remarkable that the chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs has not entered any objection to item 17 of the report. That shows that there is something we agree on. But the amendments tabled by the Greens, which one feels are about regional institutions as much as national parliaments, merit your consideration and, in my view, your vote as well."@en1

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