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Mr President. Commissioner, I am pleased to see you, a female Member of the Commission, here on International Women’s Day. First of all, however, I should like to thank the rapporteur, Mr Wieland, for his excellent report. Not only does it reflect the work of the Committee on Petitions, but it is also very informative and, above all, citizen-friendly and readable – which cannot be said about all the documents in this House. My essential concern remains, however, how we can communicate to the public the Community’s nature as something founded upon the rule of law. One of the reasons for the excessively critical attitude towards the Community on the part of the public in a good few Member States is that it makes grand promises of rights and freedoms for EU citizens, but often fails to actually implement these completely, correctly and promptly. There is still a considerable discrepancy between the EU blessings heralded to citizens with great fanfare and the way the law stands in everyday life.
What are the options open to citizens looking to fight these abuses? One of them is their right to table petitions to the European Parliament. Anchored in the Treaties and the new Constitution, this is one of the key Union civil rights, which is all the more important given that the Community is still not comparable with a State based on the rule of law, with all the attendant possibilities for enforcement. For this reason, we need to work on building a Community with a real, lasting basis in the rule of law for individual citizens and enterprises, and also, as an initial step, on enabling EU civil rights to be enforced via the Committee on Petitions. The first precondition for this is fast procedures with tangible results, which means infringement proceedings, too, with compensation for individuals. The second is that the right of petition be made easier to use and more citizen-friendly, and the third is that all the Community institutions support it. I see that as also meaning greater Council involvement, with it being present at sessions, and also the inclusion of Member States when it comes to their transposition of Community law. Only this way can we be sure to build a Europe for citizens and with them, rather than without them."@en1
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