Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-10-21-Speech-1-070"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-10-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021021.6.1-070"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-10-21-Speech-1-0712
lpv:speaker	lp:Lone Dybkjær2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Det Radikale Venstre (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I should firstly like to thank the tireless rapporteur for his work on the Charter. It is important that there should be no end of lively discussions of the Charter and of the position it is to occupy in relation to the work of the Convention. I should also like to thank Commissioner Vitorino, not just for his principled support for further work on the Charter but also for pointing out that it would not be at all easy to incorporate the whole Charter into the future constitution or wherever else it is to be incorporated, the constitution’s being the most likely candidate. What I think is important when we discuss these issues as politicians is that we constantly live in the tension between the vision and the reality. The vision is clear enough. I must go back and say a little about the content, but we would all want the whole of the Charter to be incorporated. The Charter is important. It embraces important human and other rights that it is important to secure for the citizens of Europe. On the other hand, we also need to decide our attitude to the facts, or current political reality, and ask ourselves how much of the Charter we could pilot through now that there are 15 countries in the EU, with the hope of there in actual fact being 25 once we have embarked upon the Intergovernmental Conference. It is this tension that we always need to be clear about. I support the Charter. I have always thought it was a good Charter. I have also worked on it in relation to the Danish constitution and must say that it is rather better and more forward-looking than, for example, that particular constitution read only as it stands and without the whole historical background. I do not believe that all the existing constitutions are ideal but I also think, on the other hand, that the Charter is at present becoming something of a ‘sacred cow’. I therefore think it good to be able to look at whether some articles are more important and more significant than others and at whether there are matters it might not be thought crucial to incorporate at this stage. I should like to thank the Commissioner for his openness and for making it clear that the issue is really not so straightforward as all that."@en1

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