Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-12-15-Speech-3-144"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Zita Gurmai2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I would like to thank my colleagues for all of their remarks. I am very glad that the majority among us is favourable to adding a new layer to our European democracy. It is completely natural and just to be expected that there are fears, but if we try our hand at something completely new we cannot answer all questions and calm all fears beforehand. However, I am confident that the regulation that we present today tackles many of the challenges that we could imagine during the preparation of the regulation. We should not be afraid of this new facet of democracy. We shall listen more clearly to European citizens’ voices, and we should not be afraid to do so. This is one of the long-term goals, is it not? We should only be afraid that the ECI is used not in the spirit of the Treaty, not for its intended purpose but abusively or not at all. We have done our best to reduce this risk in the regulation with the help of Sylvia Kaufmann, who made the first report on the ECI in this Parliament. I would also like to thank Maroš Šefčovič’s and Alain Lamassoure’s whole teams and our other colleagues. I would also to thank the team working for the Hungarian Presidency of the European Union for their cooperation. I would like to underline that the implementation of the regulation is crucially important and, to this end, I would like to offer my help and cooperation to the incoming Hungarian Presidency. I am confident that the vote in an hour will support the compromise reached between the European institutions. This is the only way that we can give a nice Christmas present to European citizens: a solid regulation on the European citizens’ initiative. Let us not make them wait any longer. Thank you very much for your attention and I would like to wish you, and all of the citizens here who bore witness to this, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Zita Gurmai,"1 "rapporteur."1
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