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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, like every year, reading the Commission’s legislative programme for 2003 is enough to make your head spin, first of all because it measures the scope of the areas of intervention in the European Union. It shows that, from reviews to reforms of the Treaties, the Member States have given up their most legitimate prerogatives to become nothing more than local municipalities of the future European super-State. The theoretical introduction of the principle of subsidiarity that you claim to want finally to take into account after ten years by no means curbs the Union’s legislative appetite. As far as the rest is concerned, we can but approve of the legitimate objectives, such as the stated desire to study the impact of Community legislation or codify existing legislation. We could even ask why this did not happen earlier.
The report also shows the underlying commitment to prepare the European Union for enlargement, and not only from the institutional point of view. Beyond agricultural and financial decisions which are far from being finalised, many allegedly technical adjustments remain to be made, as well as a general review of many policies which will only take place on conclusion of the accession negotiations.
As for the objective of participating in the Middle East peace process, how can we fail to have doubts when we learn that the day before yesterday, Great Britain participated unilaterally, together with the United States of America, in an air strike – yet another – against Iraq, the very day on which the inspectors stipulated in Resolution 1441 arrived there? I gladly admit that the Commission is not responsible for this situation.
Lastly, the document as a whole leaves a nasty taste in the mouth. The 2003 programme reveals the importance of the international servitude of the European Union, in addition to the desire to open up the Union as a whole to immigration, which is described as a source of cultural riches and economic strength, which unfortunately is in no way confirmed by the facts. Europe has no reason to exist if its union does not strengthen its members. The Europe we are now building on a constitutional and legislative level sadly does not contribute to this in any way."@en1
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