Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-09-15-Speech-3-182"
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"Mr President, I would briefly like to say that we have all come to the European Union because we share the same constitutional values. Whilst there is nothing essentially new in the Constitution, apart from greater legal and political integration of the Member States, it heralds a new political era, by making it clear that Europe is more than just an economic area or a market. It is an area of values, a constitutional area, where the guiding principle is human dignity.
As a joint operation, Europe requires joint mobilisation. The Constitution will not be made in the classical manner of the old constitutions; it will mobilise European institutions, States and the public. The European institutions that gave birth to the dream cannot now give birth to fear. They must mobilise themselves in this joint task of involving the public in objective and genuine debate on the reasons behind the Constitution, which is purely and simply an extension of the constitutional convergence between different States. The institutions must now therefore communicate directly with the public and must get away from exclusive mediation by the States. The institutions are taking the required steps towards transversal action in the process of concluding the constitutional foundation. We must get away from the absurdity of partitioning European discourse and, more importantly, from the absurdity of instrumentalising European discourse. We are entering a new political era. The European institutions must be at the forefront of this."@en1
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