Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-02-15-Speech-2-048"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-02-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Commission's strategic objectives and legislative programme2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000215.3.2-048"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-02-15-Speech-2-0492
lpv:speaker	lp:Giovanni Procacci2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; I Democratici (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with South-east Europe (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, President of the Commission, this is a vital document for the future and fate of Europe. However, out of all the points, two specifically require our attention, and they are closely linked: peace and stability within Europe and outside Europe. It is a question of objectives that must be pursued as a priority. For some time, we have all agreed on this notion, but we must also clearly affirm that these objectives will not be achieved without enlargement, even if this comes at a price. Today, we have been called on to choose, for the forthcoming decades, between a Europe that might be less prosperous but a beacon of peace and civilisation for the whole planet and a Europe that might be more wealthy, but where there is uncertainty over what the future might bring. These goals will be more easily obtainable only if the Intergovernmental Conference, which will draw to a close within the year, results in constitutional reform, providing the Commission with real and adequate powers so that it will no longer merely implement Council decisions or Parliament’s codecisions but will have to perform the role of a real European government. The first supporter of this reform should be Parliament itself, if it really wants to increase its role of interpreting the will of the Europeans and acquire the centrality which is part of a genuinely democratic and firmly integrated Union. Moreover, it will only be possible to give the Commission responsibility for the tasks it takes on according to the actual powers it will be accorded. Without these prospects that we have outlined, Europe would, once again, have no future."@en1

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