Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-06-06-Speech-3-039"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-06-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Roadmap for the European Union's constitutional process (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070606.12.3-039"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-06-06-Speech-3-0402
lpv:speaker	lp:Anneli Jäätteenmäki2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2006-11-28--2009-07-13)3,3 unknown; Suomen Keskusta (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 member; FEMM (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3,3 vice-chair; AFCO (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 member; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; SEDE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-13--2009-07-13)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, I wish Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel every success in her attempts to find a common view regarding the EU Constitution and the EU’s plan of action. You need dreams for such work, but you also need to be realistic. If anyone is to succeed in this I believe that it will be Angela Merkel. I hope she has taken and will take as her guiding principle what she herself proposed before work began on the Berlin Declaration. Then she hoped and made it a condition that the Berlin Declaration would be something which every European would want and could read. The Constitution should be like that. Nevertheless, I would have liked the preparations by the Member States and at EU level to have observed transparency. The EU does not deserve, it cannot have and it will not have a constitution until it can be drafted openly, and not behind people’s backs. The clarification and simplification of the Treaties was one of the key objectives set for their revision at the Nice European Council back in 2000. We must now have the courage to admit that this text is not clear: it is a vague and confusing package, and no amount of careful reading makes it sufficiently clear. Madam President, it would also be interesting to know how many Members of the European Parliament or members of national parliaments have read the entire text of this Constitution: these rules which say how the EU will operate, what its policies will be, its competencies and way of making decisions. I should guess that only a few in this Chamber have read it."@en1

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