Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-04-05-Speech-2-043-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-04-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Conclusions of the European Council meeting (24-25 March 2011) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110405.3.2-043-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Alain Lamassoure2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 chair; BUDG (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Special committee on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union after 2013 (2010-06-17--2011-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Canada (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with India (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-08--2011-07-31)3 substitute; AFCO (2010-03-29--2012-01-18)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP (2009-07-21--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, President of the European Council, President of the Commission, on the Economic and Monetary Union the outcome of the European Council is impressive. Well done! We must, however, understand that this will present a new and formidable problem, namely political acceptance of the decisions thus taken, on two levels. The first level being between the Member States themselves. Ever since this Euro Plus Pact process began it has been based on purely intergovernmental consensus, at the initiative of the largest Member State. This is fine if it is a one-off. However, if, over a number of consecutive years, we continue down the same political path, we run the risk of heightening national tensions. The German Chancellor has already been booed on the streets of Athens and Dublin. This intergovernmental procedure therefore needs to be transformed gradually into a genuinely European procedure, one not just for the EU, but for Europe as a whole. This is the thrust of the amendments adopted by Parliament, and we should thank and congratulate Mr Juncker and you, Mr Van Rompuy, for having adopted them. The second level is acceptance in the eyes of the public in each Member State. How would opposition parties in our countries feel if they were bound by policy directions about which they had never been consulted? Let us look at what happened yesterday in the Irish elections. Let us look at the electoral debate today in Portugal. The only way in which these recommendations can acquire political legitimacy is to ensure that national parliaments are involved from the very outset, throughout the process of the European semester, and yet the Council conclusions only mention these parliaments in passing, in the same category as regions, social partners and NGOs. Infinitely much more is at stake. The decisions taken mean we now have to explore a new dimension of European democracy."@en1
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