Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-12-05-Speech-4-047"

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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.20021205.2.4-047"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-12-05-Speech-4-0482
lpv:speaker	lp:Bartho Pronk2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Christen Democratisch Appèl (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I do not think it is yet entirely clear how long what the Commission has proposed actually is. I have read a document running to 23 pages. Mrs Kaufmann thought just now that there were more than a hundred, so I do not know how things are precisely, but those 23 pages are very interesting. They contain relatively little on socio-economic issues, and, as for what they do contain, I do rather wonder whether we might agree with it. I would just like to say a word about open coordination. This is a particularly thorny problem in the Treaty at the moment and it is actually poorly provided for. And what does the Commission say? It says that it must be decided by the Council, having been prepared by the Commission, and then in brackets we have 'where appropriate after consulting the European Parliament'. This is of course quite impossible. If the Commission wants to crush open coordination at some time, then I think this is how they must do it. One of the three institutions on which this Community is based cannot simply be disregarded in this way on such an important issue. That is the principal message. The second message is that in general the social element in the Convention has so far had rather too little attention paid to it. It is very fortunate that a working group has now been set up with particular concern for the social issue. I think it is possible for the major parties in particular to reach agreement on this, based on the experiences we have acquired in the European social model; it is possible, but we must be careful. There is one major difference between the two parties, the PPE-DE on the one hand and the socialists on the other, and this difference is where you start. Do you start with the economic or do you start with the social? This is important if we are to bring this to a successful conclusion."@en1

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