Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-03-11-Speech-1-068"
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"en.20020311.5.1-068"2
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"Mr President, first of all, I start from the premise that information equals power; and, quite frankly, we need to empower our citizens. Let me also congratulate Mr Andreasen on an excellent and innovative report, looking at the problems, but, I believe, bringing fresh and new solutions. May I thank him for his support and may I also thank the LIBE Committee for its support for my opinion which it voted upon and adopted unanimously. It is a sad reflection for me that I did not gain that same support from my own Group within the Culture Committee, for various reasons which I hope will become obvious at some point in the debate.
Let me turn to Mr Andreasen's report. The implementation of existing policies and future development of the European Union needs to be based on active and informed participation of its citizens. I particularly welcome moves to coordinate the information activities of the institutions and as far as possible provide information in a one-stop shop so that it is not necessary for citizens to understand the institutional structure of the Union in order to obtain the information they require.
Another key aspect of information policy of the EU institutions is access to documents, and as I repeatedly noted in connection with the adoption of Regulation No 1049/2001 on public access to documents of the institutions, documents – and I stress this – cannot be separated from the information contained in them. It therefore follows that the information and communication policy of the institutions should be coordinated with the activities for the implementation of the aforementioned Regulation. It is therefore sad that we fail to grasp the political opportunity to have the interinstitutional group on information which is responsible for cooperation on information activities working and taking on board the activities in Article 15 of Regulation 1049/2001. I hope we will revisit this and take this wonderful opportunity to combine the information policies, transparency and access to documents."@en1
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", draftsman of the opinion of the Committee on Citizen's Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs."1
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