Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-04-07-Speech-3-028"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-04-07"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Lena Ek2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, there are two key words that are devastatingly missing in the Council conclusions, and they are ‘transparency’ and ‘courage’. Firstly on economic governance: if we do not have the courage and the transparency to work with the true facts, with true statistics and the truth, and act accordingly among friends within the European Union, we will end in chaos. We have known this for years. When Mr Van Rompuy says we have to learn lessons: we have learned the lessons in debates in plenary in this Chamber for years and years and years. What we need now is action on statistics, otherwise, in Biblical terms, we will build our decisions – our house – on sand, and we know that this is not sustainable. We also know that those who violated the Growth and Stability Pact are eurozone countries. That makes it even more urgent to be true and bold, transparent and to have courage. As many speakers said, we also have to move away from open coordination methods. It is a secret coordination method today. What we need are open, binding targets and carrots and sticks for states to implement what is decided. Then on sustainable and inclusive growth: we know that ‘sustainable’ should mean environmentally friendly; it should mean socially inclusive. Why be so afraid of growth? We need economic growth and we need it spelt out in the conclusions of Europe 2020. On climate, this road map and this way of talking: we will end up going round in circles. One thing that is immediately needed is energy efficiency. Find the courage to put forward the proposals on energy efficiency. We know it creates jobs and competitiveness. Finally, on the role of Parliament: consulting is not enough. When we talk about bottlenecks, when we talk about flagship projects, we are talking about codecision and that needs much more than consulting."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AGRI (2009-07-16--2011-09-28)3 substitute; FEMM (2009-07-16--2011-09-28)3 member; ITRE (2009-07-16--2011-09-28)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2009-07-20--2011-09-28)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-17--2011-09-28)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2009-09-16--2011-09-28)3 unknown; Centerpartiet (2009-07-14--2011-09-28)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Lena Ek (ALDE )."1
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