Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-05-15-Speech-3-289"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-05-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Division of competences between the EU and the Member States2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020515.10.3-289"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-05-15-Speech-3-2902
lpv:speaker	lp:Paolo Costa2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; ELDR (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3,3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3,3 unknown; I Democratici (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2003-08-31)3,3 member; AFCO (2002-01-17--2003-09-21)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the idea that the Union’s competences should be fewer, much fewer in number than they are today but greater, much greater than they are today is one I support. This is a basic premise of the Lamassoure report which I endorse. It is certainly a mature decision to extend the Union’s competences to the common foreign and defence policy – only thus will Europe be able to make its voice heard in matters of preserving order, peace, stability and world development – and to the management of the common area of freedom and security, because only thus will we be able to combat organised crime and drugs effectively and address the issue of extra-Community immigration in a civilised manner. The Eurobarometer readings would indicate that combating poverty and exclusion should also have a place among the Union’s core competences. That said, in accepting and underlining the importance of the principle of subsidiarity and transferring all the other competences to federal sovereign bodies in accordance with this principle, it is true that, realistically, we need to acknowledge that, in the present phase of European history which is undeniably distinguished by the enlargement procedure, the Union we are building is a Union of States. That does not change the fact that the Member States themselves grew up and were defined merely in response to a need for integration in times past. They are structures dating from before the present age of globalisation. It is a fact that, in recent decades, the States have had to relinquish sovereignty upwards – as is the case with the Union itself – and, especially, downwards, towards the territorial, regional and local bodies which now represent the real identity and seat of democratic control in many parts of Europe. From this point of view, like many of the previous speakers, I believe that we need to acknowledge that we cannot just define the principle of subsidiarity in terms of its application to the Union/Member States relationship but that we need to go further and apply it to that relationship which we have undertaken to create as a further contribution to the Convention’s work."@en1

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