Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-01-11-Speech-2-076"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-01-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Constitution for Europe2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050111.5.2-076"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-01-11-Speech-2-0772
lpv:speaker	lp:Esko Seppänen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (2004-10-14--2005-06-08)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-21--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Vasemmistoliitto (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; ITRE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I am in favour of rejecting the Constitution, as is all my group. At the same time I would like to remind everyone that the European Parliament does not have competence in this matter. This debate and the committee initiative report to be adopted, which is based on it, have no legal basis or value. One reason why the Constitution should be rejected is that it means the militarisation of the European Union. Under the Constitution, Member States even have to agree to increase their military expenditure. It is quite incredible that there should be a provision on such a subject at the level of the EU Constitution. Governments of the Member States are behaving as if the Constitution were already in force. It has been decided to establish 13 battle groups, and to equip them as if they were shock troops. In fact they are shock troops, as the intention is to use them for illegal military operations just because the EU decides to. We in the Convention did not adopt a ruling for the Constitution stating that operations outside the EU’s borders must always be lawful – in other words, that they must always have a mandate from the United Nations. The Constitution should be rejected, but let the people do it. In fact, the people of just one nation will suffice."@en1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph