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lpv:speaker	lp:Elmar Brok2
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lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, please accept my apologies for only just having arrived, but the meeting of the Committee on Foreign Affairs has only just come to an end. I am glad that this report has been produced, for it is an important step in the right direction. We would not need to discuss this report if the Constitutional Treaty – in which this is one of our most important aspirations – had been ratified. If policy is to be legitimated, then transparency is a crucial issue. This means – no more and no less – that we have to answer the public when they ask who and when is responsible for what, when decisions have to be taken. If one of the legislative bodies, namely the Council of Ministers, does not conduct its legislative business in the open, then we will end up with a problem. One possible answer during the period of reflection in which we find ourselves might be to open the doors to the public. I am of course well aware that there are limits – not least where COREPER is concerned – to what can be done in the open, and of the possibility of negotiations being hampered by being conducted in the public eye. It may well be that the rapporteur and I do not agree on what these limits are. I really do beg you, Commissioner, Madam Vice-President, to join with us in taking this initiative and achieving progress in this area. I would also like to express my gratitude to the European Ombudsman for the positive line he has taken in his report, for what sparked this off was a petition submitted – with help from me – by the North Rhine-Westphalia Young Christian Democrats, and we are glad that it is pressure from young people that has made possible a debate of this kind, one that will open the door to more transparency and more democracy."@en1

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