Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-03-13-Speech-3-357"

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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.20020313.14.3-357"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-03-13-Speech-3-3582
lpv:speaker	lp:Giorgio Napolitano2
lpv:spokenAs	chair; AFCO (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3 substitute; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Democratici di Sinistra (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Carnero González report raises a fundamental and timely issue, an important aspect of which is the problem of the Union’s legal personality. It is easy to say what the issue is: the European Union needs at last to be given a face, a clear profile. Look, quite recently we were told to be careful: the building of Europe has progressed under wraps, without revealing its features and its intentions, playing on calculated ambiguities to disarm resistance and dodge the stiffest opposition. Thus for decades there was a succession of partial achievements and de facto solidarity, to borrow an expression dear to Jean Monnet and enshrined in the Schuman Declaration of 9 May 1950. Things went forward like that, without too much definition of the political and institutional individual that was growing up, without too much pretence at coherence in the building of Europe. Well, we reply, the time has come for clarity, the time has come to explicitly characterise the supranational body that has gradually been taking shape until now we have a single currency. The Convention must say who we are and what we want. The fact that the European Community may have been an original construction, without historical precedent or pre-established models, cannot mean that it should remain inexpressible or indefinable, and certainly not that it should remain incomplete. We must respond to the citizens’ legitimate questions and present ourselves as a union that has its own plan, that equips itself with clear institutional checks and balances, that recognises itself through a Constitution, that wants to play a strong international role, and therefore endows itself with a legal personality. Hence the coherent, convincing argument of Mr Carnero González’s report, which the Committee on Constitutional Affairs has fully endorsed."@en1

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