Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-13-Speech-1-076"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-01-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Regional and local authorities in European integration2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030113.5.1-076"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-01-13-Speech-1-0772
lpv:speaker	lp:Josu Ortuondo Larrea2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and MERCOSUR (2002-10-09--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Nacionalista Vasco (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I am saying nothing new when I insist that diversity is one of the characteristic principles of the united Europe we are building. This is a real difficulty, yes, but it must inspire us and it must not prevent us from seeing the wood for the trees and from finding a valid architecture so that all the institutional elements, all the existing democratic public powers, can find their places in the common Europe. In our Union there are still many deficiencies which we must clear up. We are trying to deal with one of them in this report we are debating today: the position of the regions and local powers, but, above all, the territories with legislative powers, in the future Community architecture. The Union Treaty and all the legislation based on it must make it obligatory to take account of the territorial and institutional diversity existing within the Member States, including electoral laws, so that the regions with legislative powers can become electoral constituencies for the European Parliament. These constitutional entities must be empowered to bring cases before the Court of Justice if Community decisions encroach upon or undermine their competences. It must be obligatory for the governments of the constitutional entities to participate in the meetings of the Council when issues are being dealt with which affect their exclusive competences, as in the case of taxation in the Basque Country. And it cannot be said that there are too many regions, since there are not so many entities with exclusive legislative powers. Even if all the regions were constitutional, however, the need to design a European institutional architecture which has room for all of them, in which they all have their place under the European sun, would be all the greater."@en1

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