Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-20-Speech-2-021"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20060620.6.2-021"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:spokenAs | |
| lpv:translated text |
"Mr President, I would very much like to thank the President of the Commission and Chancellor Schüssel for their help in enabling Denmark and Austria to retain their bans on fluorinated greenhouse gases, and I would like to thank all my numerous fellow MEPs who, last Tuesday, voted in favour of the groundwater rules also taking the form of a minimum directive. Total harmonisation should much more often become minimum harmonisation, so that countries are encouraged to go further in the fight for security, health and the environment. It is also some small degree of progress that codecision in the Council will from now on occur in public. Last year, out of a total of 3 124 laws, the EU adopted 57 laws in this way. What we are managing to get done in public is thus still only the tip of the iceberg. The general principle will continue to be that the EU adopts its laws in 300 secret Council working parties, assisted by 3 000 other secret working parties under the auspices of the Commission. The national parliaments get to decide about the principle of subsidiarity. Seize the opportunity – allow COSAC to deal with the annual programme until October.
That was the praise; now for the criticism. In my opinion, Chancellor Schüssel should be ashamed of calling for the ratification of a Constitution that has been rejected by the people of the Netherlands and of France. Why does he not dare ask his own Austrian people what they think of the Constitution? Why is Finland now to ratify a text that only 22% of Finns support, while 48% are against it? EU Heads of State or Government, be warned – you are heading for a confrontation with the peoples of Europe. Choose yourselves some new populations instead; or start afresh with a convention directly elected to draw up new texts that can then be put to referendums in every country on the same day. That way, it is the citizens who decide. That way, there are no longer closed meetings, like in North Korea, Cuba and COREPER."@en1
|
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples