Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-14-Speech-3-017"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-06-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Council (Brussels, 15-16 June 2006) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060614.2.3-017"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-06-14-Speech-3-0182
lpv:speaker	lp:Jens-Peter Bonde2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; AFCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Conference of Presidents (2004-07-20--2006-12-12)3 chair; IND/DEM (2004-12-06--2008-05-08)3 unknown; JuniBevægelsen - Mod Unionen (2004-07-20--2008-05-08)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-21--2008-05-08)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, what we should do, rather, is start afresh and set up a new, directly elected Convention to devise proposals that can then be put to referendums in all the Member States simultaneously. In that way we would obtain the ground rules that voters want and we could call the EU a democracy and a union of democracies. The Summit’s document on openness is a fig leaf. Last year, the EU adopted more than 3 000 acts. Fifty-seven of these were adopted through a joint decision-making process. Complete transparency and joint decision-making were also decided on at the Seville Summit in 2002 and again at the end of Tony Blair’s Presidency. Now it is Mr Blair’s own foreign minister, Margaret Beckett, who is trying to block progress at the last minute. If the measures are adopted in any case, journalists will all be able to write the joyful story of how the Summit met people’s expectations by making progress towards transparency. The majority of EU laws will, however, continue to be adopted by officials in 300 secret Council working parties after having been prepared in 3 000 other secret working parties under the auspices of the Commission. Instances of openness and democracy will continue to be exceptions to the rule. The real progress made at the Summit is in terms of its support for the Commission’s proposal that, in future, all proposals should be dealt with in proximity to the people, that is to say in the national parliaments. It is a constructive proposal, and the initiative now lies with the national parliaments. I hope that they are ready to seize the opportunity."@en1

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