Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-10-Speech-3-049"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-10-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation of the informal summit of heads of state and government (Lisbon, 18/19 October 2007)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20071010.16.3-049"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-10-10-Speech-3-0502
lpv:speaker	lp:Robert Goebbels2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Parti ouvrier socialiste luxembourgeois (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; ECON (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CONT (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with India (2007-03-16--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Intergovernmental Conference probably met in the deepest part of the Channel Tunnel to get away from public opinion. The result, Mrs Wallström, is impossible to communicate to the ordinary citizen. More than 300 amendments buried in 150 pages have transformed the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on its functioning. As a bonus, there will be 53 declarations and 12 protocols. In the wake of the symbols of the EU, such as the flag and anthem, other political achievements will also be whisked away. Social dialogue will no longer be a horizontal obligation for the EU. The social partners are asked not to bother themselves with economic policy, but only with social policy. The Protocol on Services of General Interest indirectly enshrines the primacy of competition law over all services provided to citizens by municipalities or regions, however vaguely commercial they are. National governments, like night watchmen, can only decide on non-economic services of general interest. We are being lied to about the binding nature of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Protocol 7 says, I quote: ‘for the avoidance of doubt, nothing in Title IV of the Charter creates justiciable rights applicable to Poland or the United Kingdom’. In plain language, the European Court of Justice cannot enforce the Charter. I will skip all the opt-outs that make for a two-speed Europe as far as the euro zone, the Schengen agreement and the rules on justice and home affairs are concerned. Article 24 is worthy of a totalitarian State, allowing as it does only the Council to set the rules on the protection of the personal data of our fellow citizens and to permit those data to be circulated freely to the United States. Neither the Parliament nor even the Court of Justice will be able to protect fundamental freedoms. George Orwell’s is not far off! Finally, we are being threatened with the inclusion of a permanent right of veto for governments, derived from the Ioannina compromise. This is unacceptable, Mr President. Personally, I am starting to rediscover some of the virtues of the Treaty of Nice."@en1
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