Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-05-31-Speech-3-047"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-05-31"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Debate on the future of Europe with the participation of the Belgian Prime Minister, Member of the European Council (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"pl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060531.9.3-047"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-05-31-Speech-3-0482
lpv:speaker	lp:Konrad Szymański2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; UEN (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; LIBE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006-01-19--2007-02-14)3 member; FEMM (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Belarus (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the European Union today faces a fundamental choice: whether or not to take on an additional set of tasks, expand its authority, and ultimately collapse under the weight of too much business. In my opinion the rejected draft Constitutional Treaty offers this very prospect. Our limitations have recently made themselves painfully clear when dealing with conflicts of interest between Member States in the context of the northern gas pipeline project. The European Union was powerless not for lack of a constitution, but for lack of political will. There is, however, an alternative: let us concentrate on the specific matters that are already on the table, such as improving the operation of the common market and the euro zone and improving cooperation between countries on security and on internal affairs, and ultimately on cohesion policy. The shorter the list, the easier the public will find it to understand our aims. Mr Poettering, please refrain from blackmailing us with the choice between an energy policy with the Constitutional Treaty or none at all. Let us start discussions on what really does bind us, let us write these aims down and then implement them. This would provide a good basis for an amended treaty. Yet let us not do it by hastily and arrogantly incorporating each policy into procedures and institution. Let us do it without including tasks that are impossible to implement at Community level. Let us first find the basis and substance for a common policy, or in other words what actually binds us, because no procedures on earth are capable of creating a common position where no such substance exists."@en1

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