Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-26-Speech-3-105"
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"en.20030326.6.3-105"2
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, while there is a real war raging, we shall not run the risk of having an inter-institutional war. I believe that the Council, which is well represented by the Greek Presidency, is measuring the amount of unanimity which is emerging from the speeches of representatives of political groups within Parliament, so as to be able to say where it is absolutely necessary to adjust its aim.
Parliament must defend its prerogatives, and it is right to do so. The Commission, for its part, must defend the spirit and the letter of the Treaties. All this is part of our agreements and of straightforward cooperation between institutions. One can understand the political reasons which led the Council, in Copenhagen, to adopt a certain number of measures. However, that must not be done at the expense of the integrity of the prerogatives of the institutions, starting with Parliament. I therefore appeal sincerely to the Greek Presidency, and I am sure that it will listen to me when I ask it to do everything in its power to ensure that we find our way out of this impasse, so that the Athens ceremony does indeed take place and so that it is not, as it were, obscured by a conflict which would otherwise run the risk of calling into question either the enlargement – and no one here wants that – or the spirit of the inter-institutional agreements that exist between us."@en1
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