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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we have just included the vote on Parliament’s opinion on the Intergovernmental Conference in Wednesday’s order of business.
In view of this evening’s meeting of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, I would just like to draw Members’ attention to the fact that, in the past, the European Parliament’s obligation to give an opinion – even though the opinion itself was not binding – was in fact used by such people as Altiero Spinelli in order to be able to influence decisions on treaty reform.
The fact, however, that the timeframes and procedures have been set, if I may say so, at an almost military pace, so that the committee has its debate and votes straight away this evening and then Parliament makes its judgment on Wednesday, means that we are giving up that power to influence that we in this House should have been able to exercise and, indeed, should still be able to exercise, for example in relation to those who even want to remove our European symbols from the treaties.
I hope that one of the Members here present will put forward this possibility in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs this evening."@en1
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