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"Madam President, I am going to comment on the Koukiadis report.
Hardly a year has passed since we debated the report on the deliberations of the Committee on Petitions for 2001 – for which I was rapporteur – and I am pleased to note that the right of petition is increasingly strengthening the political control that the European Parliament can exercise in relation to excessive violations of Community law. This also allows us to assess the state of the application of that law within the Union and the degree of satisfaction amongst the citizens with the Community institutions, which are absolutely essential in a Union which is so large, so multi-faceted and sometimes so disconnected from those institutions.
All of this is taken up superbly in the report by Mr Koukiadis which, furthermore, comes at an historic moment for the Convention, which should not sidestep – this would be a great mistake – the strengthening of the right to petition and the enlargement of a uniform administrative code of conduct. For all these reasons, we congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Koukiadis.
However, we once again regret – and this aspect is also taken up in the report we are debating – the lack of attention the Council is paying to this inalienable right of the European citizens, since the Council is still absent throughout the process, and this at a time when it is trying to gain more power for itself, to the detriment of Parliament and the Commission.
Furthermore, we are delighted at the intention to introduce preventive measures to prevent abuses of cultural and environmental heritage – which, by the way, are issues which are at the forefront of the European citizens’ concerns.
I will end by insisting also that we should investigate procedures aimed at effectively remedying the national authorities’ lack of willingness to cooperate with the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament. We must study them and implement them as soon as possible. We have had enough of the lukewarm positions of the Council and the national governments. As the rapporteur suggests and as has been proposed in corresponding reports in previous years, we should even go as far as to renounce, in press conferences, the obstructive and reticent attitudes of the governments to the resolutions of Parliament’s Committee on Petitions.
And I would also like to wish Jacob Söderman all the best for his Iberian retirement."@en1
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