Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2013-12-11-Speech-3-566-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2013-12-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Relations between the European Parliament and the institutions representing the national governments (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20131211.67.3-566-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2013-12-11-Speech-3-567-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Andrew Henry William Brons2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, it is tempting to applaud the proposals for increasing the power of Parliament and increasing the accountability of the President of the European Council to it. Equally, it is easy to deprecate the behaviour of the European Council in trying to extend its role. If I were an enthusiast for the EU project, I would succumb to both temptations. However, I am not so I shall not. Do I look at the European Council through rose-tinted spectacles? No. My view of some of their members might involve unparliamentary language. However, whatever I think of particular members of the European Council, its members represent Member States and are ultimately responsible to their electorates and removable by them. The Parliament, whatever its merits, is not responsible to a single electorate with a consciousness of its identity so it cannot take a conscious collective decision as to the choice of Commission President. Indeed its decision will look like the decision of a Ouija board."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; NA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2013-10-09--2014-06-30)3 substitute; LIBE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2013-07-09--2014-06-30)3 member; AFCO (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; British Democratic Party (2013-02-09--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Andrew Henry William Brons (NI ). -"1
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