Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-14-Speech-3-044"
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"Mr President, Mr Winkler, your Presidency can already boast of a positive track record. We congratulate you on it. As for the European Council that is due to take place, it is not in a position to take major decisions, but it may have a decisive influence on the future fate of the European Union.
Paving the way for a revival or endorsing a failure: that is the challenge awaiting you. You will have to determine the strategy for future enlargements. I call on you to stop forging ahead regardless, an approach further illustrated by the opening of detailed negotiations with Turkey, even though the latter does not fulfil the political conditions and is making no further progress with regard to integrating the
. From now on, we must regard the European Union’s absorption capacity as a key parameter. There can be no further enlargement without an improvement in the decision-making mechanisms, without a sufficient budget, without new resources and without a genuine agreement on the nature of the European project.
This is what it is basically about: constructing a political Europe by setting out the timetable for implementing the main reforms contained in the Constitutional Treaty, which we refuse to forget about. The Convention obtained a result that cannot be overturned. We must go beyond Nice.
What should the content of the European policies be? We do not want Europe to devote the bulk of its decisions to improving the internal market, that is to say, to creating a vacuum. We want a Europe that builds. We want the governments and our Parliament to draft the policies that we need: on immigration, energy, economic coordination, research, security and foreign relations.
Contrary to what is claimed, Europeans want more Europe, but they want a Europe that creates forms of solidarity, that guarantees security, that makes an impact on the world and that does not just police the market. They want a Europe, too, that respects its most sacred commitments: Strasbourg as the seat of the European Parliament. A great deal of lucidity and courage will be required. We trust that you will provide evidence of this at the end of June."@en1
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