Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-24-Speech-3-016"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Constitution and IGC2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030924.1.3-016"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-24-Speech-3-0172
lpv:speaker	lp:Armando Cossutta2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partito dei Comunisti Italiani (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in giving Europe the text of a Constitution, which will contribute effectively to constructing our future, the Convention has accomplished an important task. This work must be protected from slanderers and opponents but it must also be further improved upon – it is not true that there is no scope to do this – and we must reject the theories of those who do not want to change anything, or else all the work that has been achieved will come to nothing. I share and support, therefore, the proactive view taken by Mr Prodi, who sees the value of the texts but is also aware of the limits and risks that could arise from it. More specifically, I will indicate corrections that I feel are necessary and possible. I am not referring to the inadequate content and inadequate social rights, which, as we know, are the result of the specific balance of powers today. It is no coincidence, for example, that the Constituent Assembly which wrote the marvellous Italian Constitution in the post-war period, had as its President the communist, Umberto Terracini, while our Convention is chaired by the extremely respectable but extremely moderate Mr Giscard d'Estaing. I am, therefore, referring to issues that are purely institutional. Firstly, a full-time President of the Council who is in office for a long period of time, instead of a rotating presidency, would end up overlapping with the President of the Commission and their work would conflict, causing paralysis and crisis in the institutions. Secondly, unanimity voting must be abolished in all areas because the right to veto can, at any time, block any innovative process. Thirdly, there must be a single common foreign policy and it must be accompanied by a European military capacity superseding NATO which would give us not only an independent role but also a stabilising role in the face of the one-sided, imperialist power that is currently present in and threatening the world."@en1

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