Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-09-15-Speech-3-183"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-09-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Ratification of the Constitutional Treaty2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040915.7.3-183"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-09-15-Speech-3-1842
lpv:speaker	lp:Sérgio Sousa Pinto2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; LIBE (2004-07-21--2005-11-21)3 unknown; Partido Socialista (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, Mr Nicolaï, I should like to begin by registering my displeasure at the brief introduction to nationalist-style populist rhetoric and to parochial attitudes to national languages to which we have been treated. Even a constitutional debate offers an opportunity to people with that parochial mentality, people who are incapable of grasping what is at stake. Commissioner, I should like to draw your attention to the fact that, in our view, it would be crazy for the Commission, which had a decisive role to play in tabling the draft Constitution, to renege on its responsibility to take part in a joint strategy aimed at its approval. A joint strategy between the Commission and the Council carries a good deal more weight and goes beyond a mere information campaign used to disseminate objective information. Whilst that role is very important, a common strategy goes beyond that and carries more weight. Given the nature of the European Project and, in particular, of the conditions for approving the draft Constitution, as has most aptly been said earlier, in any national process of approving a draft, in every country the interests of other States, the interests of all States and the interests of all European citizens are an important factor. The intervention on the part of the Community institutions, the Commission, the Council and Parliament itself, is, moreover, the only one, in view of its unquestionably supranational nature, in particular that of the Commission and Parliament, to intervene firmly in this process without laying itself open to the charge of interfering in the internal democratic process of the States concerned. Supranational institutions do not lay themselves open to the charge of interfering in the internal democratic process of States and therefore have a greater responsibility in fighting for the approval of the Constitution."@en1

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