Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-23-Speech-2-086"

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dcterms:Date	"2007-10-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Results of the informal summit of heads of state and government (Lisbon, 18-19 October 2007) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20071023.7.2-086"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-10-23-Speech-2-0872
lpv:speaker	lp:Bernard Poignant2
lpv:spokenAs	member; REGI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2006-06-07--2009-07-13)3 substitute; AFCO (2007-06-28--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, ‘nothing is possible without men; nothing is lasting without institutions’. So said Jean Monnet, and it applies very well to our situation. Is the Treaty perfect, then? Of course not! Jean Monnet has an answer for this too. On the Treaty of Rome, he wrote that he did not ask himself whether the Treaty could have been better as it corresponded to all that was possible at the time and to the wisdom of the age. 1957-2007. Are we taking the risk of starting again? No, of course not. There will be no third treaty. One crisis is enough. Two is too many. Jean Monnet again has the answer: ‘I have always thought that Europe would be made through crises and that it would be the sum of the solutions to those crises.’ That is what the Treaty is. However, obviously not everyone agrees, since our British friends are so keen on opting out. I live on a peninsula, so I understand island mentalities. However, Jean Monnet experienced this in 1951 with coal and steel. They were not interested, it was offered to them, and then they came on board. Remember Tony Blair. He signed the Social Protocol of the Maastricht Treaty. We are sure to find a British colleague to sign the Charter of Fundamental Rights one of these days. Let us be patient, and remember the Chinese diplomat who once said that he admired the wise slowness of the construction of Europe. Let us go on. Of course, I would like to finish by congratulating the Portuguese Presidency, and as I am a French MEP, I am proud of my Portuguese President and the circumstances that mean we now seem to have two for the price of one!"@en1

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