Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-18-Speech-3-035"
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"Mr President, the Convention method as a method of implementing treaty changes is something quite new. Success has been achieved in the main aim of broadening the EU debate and bringing the negotiations out from behind the closed doors of dusty meeting rooms. We who had hoped, however, that the EU would fully move on from the stage of being a technocratic union and become a genuine democracy based upon a common European debate have reason to be somewhat disappointed. There are too many ground rules and too many exceptions to the norms. I nonetheless hope that this outcome will lead to a strengthening of the EU’s competitiveness, something that is crucial. The next Convention must take up the loose threads that have been left dangling. Anyone who wants to see what this Convention really entails must read between the lines in analysing the outcome. Among the issues that will be on the table for the next Convention are foreign policy – a clear example of a loose thread – as well as merging the jobs of the two executive presidents into one and continuing to develop the Council into a second chamber.
This constitutional treaty is really not the EU’s last treaty change. The Charter of Fundamental Rights, devised at the time of the last treaty change, was not introduced then but has been incorporated now. That is the way the EU process operates. Exceptions to the normal decision-taking model in this Convention must be taken care of at the next Convention. The trend is nonetheless in the right direction, so the compromise must remain in place. Influence on the part of the people has, in spite of everything, been significantly strengthened. This may get to increase, but it may never ever decrease."@en1
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