Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-06-07-Speech-4-047"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-06-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparations for the European Council (21 to 22 June) and the situation with regard to the revision of the Treaties (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"pl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070607.3.4-047"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-06-07-Speech-4-0482
lpv:speaker	lp:Andrzej Jan Szejna2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; PETI (2007-03-27--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 member; REGI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; BUDG (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CONT (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej - Unia Pracy (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the European Union is just a step away from agreement on its future. It has to choose between remaining an organisation focused on its own problems, or preparing itself adequately to respond to global challenges. All Europeans, including Poland and its people, have an important contribution to make to this debate. I believe that a political understanding on the European treaty should be reached at the June European Council. As far as possible, such a treaty should be based on the Constitutional Treaty signed by all Member States of the European Union in 2004. Despite being simplified, the new Treaty should retain all the major innovations of the Constitutional Treaty. The intergovernmental conference ought to be convened immediately after the forthcoming summit, so that the final document can be ready by the end of this year. It could then be officially signed early next year and ratified prior to the European Parliament elections due in June 2009. For this to be possible the voting system enshrined in the Constitutional Treaty based on a double majority of countries and citizens must be retained. This is essential for the European Union’s activities to be accepted by society. The Polish Government’s stance is aimed at amending the voting system and represents a return to the notion of wheeling and dealing within the Union. The effect would be precisely the opposite of what is intended. I would like to state my very serious concern about the equivocal position adopted by the Polish Government at the current negotiations. Poland’s stance is entirely incomprehensible to national public opinion and to its European partners. I therefore call on the Polish Government to support a compromise on the European treaty."@en1

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