Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-10-22-Speech-3-028"
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"en.20031022.2.3-028"2
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"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, European summits are so high-level, they must take place in the stratosphere, because they appear to be light years away from the daily realities of Europe. Mr Prodi, Mr Berlusconi, you are arguing over who should take credit for an initiative for growth, an initiative that is a hoary old chestnut of European politics, which has been trotted out for over twenty years and which will gradually lose all substance. As per usual, it looks as though Mr Pasqua will be disappointed.
Although you have not said a word, I am talking about the Council, about what has stifled growth in Europe and which will prevent any recovery, primarily in the Euro zone: the incredible ‘policy mix’, that incredibly stupid policy which condemns the euro zone to both monetary and budgetary rigour. We would have expected the Council to say something about the soaring value of the euro, which is killing our imports, thereby making Europe, the euro zone, the weak link in the world economy. Are currency issues only to be discussed at the G8, with all the consequences that that entails?
As regards the Constitution, without prejudice to the results, I think that the IGC is causing Europe to indulge in institutional navel-gazing, without the public being able to understand the issues at stake, something that the Convention managed to avoid, whatever one might think about the outcome of its work. Well, Mr Berlusconi, you who have managed to be inventive in your own country and revitalise political life by inventing
please innovate at European level and come up with a European referendum for us because, whatever the relative influence of our governments, of Parliament and of the Commission on the future architecture of Europe, what is lacking, what could be called the missing link, are the citizens: the only way of involving them in this process of building Europe is to hold a referendum, even if some risk is involved. I hope that the IGC will result in a more solid resolution on this matter than did the Convention."@en1
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"Forza Italia,"1
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