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Mr President, I am going to try to respond quickly to the problems that affect me most directly and leave to Anna Diamantopoulou the problems which fall more within her competence.
Firstly, is there a split in relation to Lisbon and is there a lack of coordination in terms of the decision making at the spring Council? I believe that there is not; I believe that the situation is precisely the opposite. In fact, we will go to the spring Council with a position on guidelines for the different processes. The Lisbon Council will take this decision – which of course must be consistent in all the guidelines – and subsequent Councils will then have to work on that basis. Therefore, what we are achieving is the opposite: that the various Councils work in a direction which has already been previously defined. Not only are we acting coherently with Lisbon, but I believe we are going further than what had initially been foreseen.
Secondly, something which concerns many of you: what is the role of Parliaments – European and national – in the process? From the point of view of the broad guidelines for economic policy, we are working with existing laws, as I said before. We are not therefore talking about a modification of the Treaties or other aspects which can be raised in the Convention. Nevertheless, we believe that the new procedure allows Parliament to take two types of action. Firstly, the debate on the report on implementation of the broad guidelines for economic policy. Parliament will have much more time than it did previously to hold that debate, and will also have more opportunity to take its own positions on the broad guidelines of economic policy, as we have been introducing into practice over recent years. In this respect, we believe that the situation is clearly improving.
The position of national parliaments must be decided by each Member State, although the Commission advocates the idea that, both in the broad guidelines for economic policy, and in issues relating to the stability programmes, the national Parliaments should be involved.
Finally, it is true that there is basic coordination between the broad guidelines of economic policy and employment, but also with the Cardiff Process and the other processes which can affect economic policy. These are the essential issues I wanted to comment on."@en1
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