Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-01-14-Speech-3-041"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-01-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Programme of the Irish presidency2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040114.1.3-041"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-01-14-Speech-3-0422
lpv:speaker	lp:José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-neyra2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and MERCOSUR (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Popular (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, I would like to wish the Irish Presidency luck and congratulate it on the slogan it has chosen, ‘Europeans – Working Together’, which is what we really need in order to confront the problems we are faced with. We must welcome the Irish Presidency’s active approach to the institutional confusion. Europe needs and wants a Constitution which reflects the aspirations of all the citizens of the European Union. It is clear, Mr President, that we must recover the path of sustainable growth and job creation. The Irish Presidency is very well situated, given the competitiveness the European Union requires, to take the path of the Lisbon Summit. At the same time, I believe it would be important – and it seems that the Presidency has not considered this – to schedule a debate on the financial perspectives which President Prodi announced this morning. It is clear that one problem we will have to face is the coherent decision taken by the Commission yesterday to bring proceedings before the Court of Justice as a result of the decision taken by the Ecofin Council. The European Union is a Community of law, and the rules only make sense if they are accompanied by the obligation for everybody, large and small, to comply with them. We are very pleased with the Presidency-in-Office of the Council’s assessment of the area of freedom, security and justice and the progress made since the Tampere Summit. We believe that it is also very well situated to confront relations between the European Union and United States, and in order to try to somehow transform the discord of the past into the harmony of the present and future. I would like to point out, because I believe it is significant, that yesterday saw the close of the Summit of the Americas – not in the best possible circumstances – and to say to the Presidency-in-Office that a very important area is being opened up allowing the European Union decisively to make this a priority for the next European Union/Latin America Summit of Heads of State or Government, in Mexico. I will end, Mr President, by regretting the fact that Mr Schulz is not with us. What the President, Mr Poettering, has said very clearly is that we must not proceed in a hurried fashion. There have been a series of premature candidatures. The ballot box will determine how majorities will be made up and it is clear that, in his proposal, the President of the Commission will have to take account of the results of the European elections. That is what this Parliament voted for. Our group is clearly the majority group and it is destined to continue to be so during the next legislature."@en1

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