Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-12-05-Speech-4-040"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-12-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Commission contribution to the work of the European Convention2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021205.2.4-040"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-12-05-Speech-4-0412
lpv:speaker	lp:Margrietus van den Berg2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partij van de Arbeid (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-22--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 substitute; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and Mexico (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I shall be listening with interest to Mr Prodi’s response following the comments of Mr Hänsch and Mr Brok, who are very much in agreement on this point. The struggles for power and for the social face of Europe have now really broken out. There is of course a battle between large and small, between technocrats and democrats, between results-orientation and bureaucracy, and everything revolves around the question of who is going to be pulling the strings in the Europe of tomorrow. And with more power for the European Council, as some want, we will of course be breaking the balance between the institutions. That means the triumph of the back-room politics of the big countries, and this will have a paralysing effect. Just look at migration policy – fewer results, less democracy. We can also vote for democracy, however, for a Europe that its citizens can understand – in other words, the Community method, in which the Commission is the elected European government and the premier is chosen by Parliament, the direct representatives of European citizens. This is the best guarantee for small and medium-sized Member States such as the Netherlands that their interests count too. At the same time we can make effective European policy. Consider migration and in particular the Vitorino proposals. Result: democracy and citizens over against this continent's Sun Kings. President Prodi. And at the same time, the struggle over the choice of whether or not we have a social Europe. Conservative, free-market thinking Europe, even here in the European Parliament, refuses to anchor the European social model as a task in the European constitution. And it is precisely on this that citizens, social organisations and we as social democrats want to do battle, because it goes to the heart of the matter. Are we going to choose a Europe as social protection for our citizens or are we going for the Europe of the free market, which is powerless in the face of globalisation, in which citizens feel alienated and at times of mass redundancies are regarded as disposable items? Once again President Prodi: . Convention, seize your opportunity!"@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Aux armes democratiques"1 "aux armes democratiques, Commission et citoyens"1

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