Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-20-Speech-2-027"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-06-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Council report and Commission statement: European Council meeting (Brussels, 15-16 June 2006) – Statement by the Presidency-in-Office of the Council: Work of the Austrian Presidency2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060620.6.2-027"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-06-20-Speech-2-0282
lpv:speaker	lp:Esko Seppänen2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-21--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Vasemmistoliitto (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CONT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; ITRE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Chancellor, Commissioner, the most significant issue during the Austrian Presidency was the agreement on new economic guidelines for the period 2007–2013. This was achieved by using the Commission and Parliament as dishcloths to wipe the table clean. European Commission President Barroso’s empty rhetoric did not work. Also evident in Barroso’s speeches on the EU Constitution is a lack of credibility. Perhaps you could say as much to Mr Barroso, Commissioner Rehn. The Commission’s plan ‘D’ is just that: propaganda, agitating and wheedling from top to bottom. It would have been democratic if the EU Constitution had been pronounced dead. That would have been the kind of democracy we associate with the agreement of a state. The Constitution had to be adopted in all the Member States by common consent. The opposite of democracy with the agreement of a state is dictatorship by a majority. The EU’s political elite and eurocracy are bad losers. You are bad losers, Mr Austria, Mr Commission and you too, Mr Parliament. You are trying to resurrect a dead constitution; you are asking the Member States to ratify something which will never come into force. You are also asking the same of my country, Finland, where, according to an opinion poll, only 22% of the nation are in favour of ratification of the EU Constitution in Parliament. Shame on you, you opponents of state democracy, who act with a 22% minority! As a positive aspect of the summit, we note the new transparency of the Councils and comitology. The decision shows that we do not need more in the way of a constitution to improve democracy, but more democratic will. Greater transparency equals better democracy."@en1

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