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"The next item is the Council and Commission statements on the conclusions of the European Council meeting (28-29 June 2012).
As you know, ladies and gentlemen, at the informal summit on 23 May 2012, I proposed a growth pact to the European Council which involves all three EU institutions working closely together in order to take all the measures necessary to overcome the crisis in the coming six to twelve months.
I am grateful to the President of the Commission, Mr Barroso, who took up this idea in the form of an interinstitutional agreement and put this to Parliament at its last sitting. Parliament then mandated me, by a broad majority, to present this idea to the European Council jointly with Mr Barroso.
Unfortunately, the European Council did not accept our joint proposal for an interinstitutional agreement. I feel it is appropriate to comment on this. I make no secret of the fact that there was overwhelming support for our proposal in the European Council. By far the majority of the Heads of Government of the European Union advocated this interinstitutional agreement.
At the same time, however, it became apparent that the European Council has a structural weakness, and that is its unanimity principle. In my opinion, we will not emerge from the crisis while this unanimity principle exists.
I would like to thank the Commission for its support. I should like to propose to you that the two institutions, the Commission and Parliament, stick with the idea of working in close, constructive cooperation towards expedited legislation – if that is what is desired – while completely safeguarding the rights of the European Parliament.
There is no doubt that the compromise reached in the area of the European patent, for example, does not set a good example of how to proceed. We are firmly convinced that together, in the interests of the people of Europe, we should do everything we can to emerge from this crisis swiftly and stronger than before.
I should like to pass on one piece of positive news. The European Council has accepted the human rights pact and the associated action plan, for which we as Parliament have fought long and hard. I believe that as the European Parliament, we should very much welcome this decision, since this package declares human rights and democracy to be a central element of European external policy.
All of us here are convinced that the human rights package provides an extraordinarily good basis for making more effective, more coherent human rights and democratisation policy. We are looking forward to making the public aware of this human rights package through a formal interinstitutional declaration and documenting the support that this has from all three institutions."@en1
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