Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-05-21-Speech-1-045-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-05-21"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120521.14.1-045-000"2
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lpv:translated text	"Madam President, peace and the goal of social justice have formed the basis of EU thinking from the start, and all of this can only be realised if the EU allows its internal market to function. The European Union has endless opportunities, but there is also the danger that we will ourselves destroy those opportunities. In this respect, Mr Busuttil’s report adopts an opinion on a very important issue: the implementation of legislation. Member States continue to fail to implement jointly agreed directives and regulations within the agreed deadlines. This is particularly the case with matters relating to taxation and the environment. It is worth noting that it is not just the citizens of any given Member State that will suffer if legislation is not implemented: the other Member States operating within the EU’s internal market will also suffer. If our objective is to promote unity and economic growth in the EU and the functioning of its internal market, we should put the provisions of directives and regulations into practice more quickly than is the case now. If Member States are not willing to implement, for example, legislative acts on the environment, how does the EU intend to achieve, say, the goals of the Europe 2020 strategy as regards resource and energy efficiency in Europe? Legislation that is implemented unsatisfactorily weakens the credibility of the EU, competitiveness and, above all, the rights of citizens. We should also ask ourselves how we can ask the public to believe in and, furthermore, commit to an internal market for the EU, if Member States and policy makers in the various Member States do not care to. The EU uses legislation to aspire, for example, to a better operating environment for consumers and SMEs. A better operating environment will be difficult to achieve, however, without reform and common legislation. For this reason, we need to be prepared, if necessary, to intervene in some way in the activities of Member States that are reluctant to obey the rules that we have agreed on together. If we do not intervene in the activities of Member States who flout the rules, the future of the internal market will be fragmentation, not unity. Moreover, this is the issue with the crisis that is now affecting Europe. It is a matter of morals and ethics: about whether all the Member States, from the largest to the smallest, are actually prepared to commit to decisions made jointly."@en1
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