Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-07-03-Speech-1-090"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-07-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Council/Portuguese presidency2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000703.6.1-090"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-07-03-Speech-1-0912
lpv:speaker	lp:Nelly Maes2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Volksunie (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 vice-chair; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-19--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Portuguese Presidency was a pro-active presidency. As a Parliament, we had a particularly attentive and considerate opponent, which pleases us greatly. But the Council is, and remains, an opponent as far as we are concerned. As MEPs we are still far from satisfied. The Council appears to be the least willing of all the European institutions to hear the call for democracy and transparency. The Council swears by the Member States through thick and thin, although it is such a struggle to get them to cooperate. Mr Patten and some fellow honourable Members have already made reference to the undignified end met by 58 Chinese immigrants. The decisions reached in Tampere as to what needs to be done on the asylum seekers, displaced persons and immigrants front, have come so hopelessly late. And if anything does come of this, it may fall well short of the mark. The agreements on the common foreign and security policy bear witness to Parliament’s total exclusion. We are slipping into a more intergovernmental and less federal Europe and this must be checked as a matter of urgency. Cooperation between Member States cannot provide the solution to problems when these very States and their borders are part of the problem. This will be brought home to us with all the more force when it comes to enlargement. Then, the only solution will be democratic federalism which also recognises peoples and regions and minorities. I would love to talk to Portugal about what has really been going on behind the screens because I cannot imagine that as a small country you are happy with all of this."@en1

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