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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2010-03-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Development of the European Citizens’ Initiative based on Article 11(4) of the Treaty on European Union (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20100324.13.3-113"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-03-24-Speech-3-1142
lpv:speaker	lp:Georgios Papanikolaou2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-10-06--2014-06-30)3,3 substitute; CULT (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3,3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3 member; LIBE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3,3 member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3,3 unknown; Nea Demokratia (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we often refer to the need to increase the participation of European citizens, to the need for us to get closer to the Union’s institutions, to the citizens of all the Member States. We debated this intensively at the last European elections, when we saw in many Member States that participation was particularly low. A very important event has occurred between then and now, which has changed the very structure and operation of the Union. I refer, of course, to the Treaty of Lisbon, an important treaty, the epicentre of which is the citizen, the basic pillar of which is how all of us, Parliament, the Commission and the Council, can get closer to the citizens. This principle finds specific expression in the citizens’ initiative in Article 11(4). This is an important and exceptional arrangement which promotes democracy, political equality and transparency. Of course, what we want is for this arrangement to be applied correctly and to see it in practice. This is where the problems arise. While all my fellow members are right to highlight the need for this procedure to be reliable, for the role of the Commission and the role of Parliament to be defined, we must all be able to work together so that this important citizens’ initiative, if signatures are collected, does not go to waste. My conclusion is this: we all have a responsibility to promote this initiative. We all have a responsibility to explain this right which all our fellow European citizens now have, to give them to understand that they personally can set procedures in motion, without any other intervention, at the level of the Union’s institutions. Above all, our message must be clear and must be contained in a simple, understandable, comprehensible procedure which, if nothing else, functions for everyone, functions for the citizens, functions for Parliament, for the Union’s institutions, for the Member States and for all stakeholders in the procedure."@en1
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