Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-03-13-Speech-3-356"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-03-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Legal personality of the European Union2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020313.14.3-356"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-03-13-Speech-3-3572
lpv:speaker	lp:Guido Bodrato2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partito popolare italiano (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the resolution on the legal personality of the European Union is one of Parliament’s contributions to the Convention charged with drawing up the European Constitution. The Carnero González report stresses that the attribution of its legal personality is an essential step towards the constitutionalisation of the Treaties and improves the coherence of the various European policies. Opponents of the Union speak of a superstate, a Europe that has fallen into the hands of a stateless bureaucracy. In reality, Europe is not a threat to national identities, and national identities are not a threat to Europe. Political unity is the only way to prevent the individual countries from being overwhelmed by untamed globalisation or to prevent difficulties from making the ghosts of nationalism re-emerge. Anyway, we are not starting from scratch. In the past the Treaty has attributed legal personality to the European Communities, but with the birth of the Union there is a legal void to fill. The Council has addressed this several times, without, however, reaching clear conclusions. Public opinion and all countries that have relations with Europe are convinced that their relations are with an autonomous and unitary system. Moreover, in the sphere of foreign policy, defence and security, the European Council can deliberate on procedures that represent the beginnings of a legal personality. One has to recognise the benefits for European citizens and for the Union’s international image. It is not true that we are trying to build our common house from the roof down. Construction by pillars reveals a problem, which Mr Carnero’s proposal remedies by taking up a 1997 Parliamentary resolution on international law, Community law and the constitutions of the individual Member States. This resolution made express reference back then to the need to give the Union a legal personality. We cannot, of course, pre-empt the Convention, but this resolution gives a great boost to a constitutional process to which, in our opinion, the future of a democratic Europe is bound."@en1

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