Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-05-06-Speech-3-442"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-05-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Parliament's new role and responsibilities in implementing the Lisbon Treaty - Institutional balance of the European Union - Relations between the European Parliament and national parliaments under the Treaty of Lisbon - Financial aspects of the Lisbon Treaty - Implementation of the citizens' initiative (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20090506.41.3-442"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-05-06-Speech-3-4432
lpv:speaker	lp:Andrzej Wielowieyski2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2008-09-04--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Partia Demokratyczna (2008-09-01--2009-07-13)3 member; AFET (2008-09-01--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2008-09-22--2009-07-13)3 member; AFCO (2008-09-01--2009-07-13)3 member; ALDE (2008-08-26--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I believe that Mr Dehaene’s report, which is very important and very valuable, should be supplemented as regards the operation and, above all, the responsibilities of the European Council. This important body will be raised to the rank of institution and, in the political sphere, it is a leading force. Particular attention should therefore be paid to it. Its actions will be subject to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in the same way as the European Central Bank’s are. I also propose, on behalf of my group, an amendment which reflects this extra responsibility. As its legislative functions are limited, this responsibility essentially falls under Article 265 on the failure to act. I believe that, for lack of details in the treaty, the obligations of the European Council will probably have to be spelled out in an interinstitutional agreement. Mrs Kaufmann’s report is therefore very important, because it constitutes a real opening up towards the citizens. The greatest weakness that we could show, when faced with a challenge for the Union’s future, would be to create a void, a distance between the Union and the citizens. For them, the Union is distant and unknown, even though they feel that they need it. My group, the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, believes that this void can only be filled effectively via regular, broad-based consultation of the citizens. We have not had the time to finish our work nor to conclude our debate on this issue. Nevertheless, as Mr Lamassoure has already observed, the citizens’ initiative can, according to the treaty, be a major instrument for creating a European public space that we very much need. It will, in effect, encourage public debate between the citizens and the Union, and this in turn will awaken the public awareness that is crucial to us. Even so, however, its management is a major challenge for the European institutions, especially for the Commission, with the credibility of this new instrument at stake, for the Member States, which must accept the new practice and provide the infrastructures and, obviously, for the citizens, who must take up this new instrument for the good of direct democracy."@en1
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