Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-03-14-Speech-3-031"
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"Mr President, I wish, first of all, to congratulate the Commission on the content of the position that it has adopted here, but I should like to ask Commissioner Barnier a specific question: is the Commission going to content itself with this statement or do you, Mr Barnier, and Mr Prodi intend immediately to visit the governments in order to persuade them to accept your positions? This is what differentiates a centre for discussion from an institution which is able to implement and make policy. I would like you to give me a specific answer to this question because, at the time of the Treaty of Nice, the Commission put forward good proposals and good positions, which were then ignored by the Council.
With regard to the issue that has been raised here of the ‘follow-up to Nice’, I wish to express my satisfaction at the agreement that has been reached in terms of the items on the agenda. The Commission, the Council and the European Parliament have agreed that the four items are inadequate. As a matter of fact, this is inevitable, because we cannot stimulate a European debate and then restrict the intellectual exercise of extending it to other issues, as the President pointed out.
Nevertheless, I should like to ask the Swedish Presidency two questions. Firstly, is it prepared to review the date for drafting this Treaty? I think that 2004 would be the worst year to undertake this exercise, not only for the reasons that Mr Dupuis has just given, but because, instead of uniting the parties in each Member State that is in favour of the European project, the election campaign often divides them. Therefore, I should like to know if the presidency and the Council are considering this issue of the date. Lastly, Madam President, neither the Council nor the presidency itself must use the debate as an excuse to do nothing. It must be an event that leads to some form of action. My specific question is this: why is the presidency afraid of there being a forum or convention that can make proposals? We do not want to replace national governments and we do not wish to take decisions – you are the decision makers – but I should like to ask, why are you afraid of our ideas, our proposals and our contribution?"@en1
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