Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-25-Speech-3-051"
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"Mr President, as you know, I led Parliament’s delegation in Johannesburg and I should like to explain something, because I think that Commissioner Nielsen has confused matters somewhat. Commissioner Nielsen has not understood why we are praising the Council and criticising the Commission for the fact that Parliament was not given the institutional role it should have had.
I shall try to explain once again: Let us separate the institutional level, the role of Parliament, from political cooperation. At the institutional level, we want both the Commission and the Council to support our right to participate in the daily coordination meetings of the European Union. This is a matter to be resolved under the forthcoming revision of the Interinstitutional Agreement. Cooperation policy is a very diverse thing and we had the feeling that, in the framework of cooperation policy, the Council was acting with transparency and the Commission was guilty of omission. And this is what is causing us certain difficulties because we were not used to this sort of behaviour by the Commission; we were used to seeing its commitment, to holding joint Parliament press conferences with the Commission and with the Council, to openness, to a real involvement of Parliament, which this time we only felt was apparent, unfortunately, on the part of the Council."@en1
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