Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-04-04-Speech-3-017"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-04-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Outcome of the European Council of 23/24 March 2001 in Stockholm including the situation in the Middle East2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010404.2.3-017"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-04-04-Speech-3-0182
lpv:speaker	lp:Jens-Peter Bonde2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; CONT (1999-07-21--2001-04-23)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 member; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; JuniBevægelsen (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; EDD (2001-01-30--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Presidents (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the Swedish Presidency began well but will now be remembered for having introduced more secrecy and less democracy. The Lamfalussy report transfers legislative power from elected representatives in open assemblies to officials behind the closed doors of committee rooms. Sweden has identified transparency as a key issue and has a culture of transparency from which we can all learn. In the negotiations concerning transparency, however, Sweden has now accepted a new internal set of regulations producing more secrecy instead of more transparency. On 19 March, the Council also decided that future relaxations in the rules of confidentiality must be adopted by qualified majority voting and not, as is the case at present, by a simple majority. Thus, it will never be possible for the rules to be relaxed as long as Spain, France and Germany do not want them to be. It is those three countries which are the villains in the negotiations concerning transparency. This is something of which the public in our countries should be aware. How can a German, Green foreign minister accept responsibility for secrecy? The Council’s new rules on confidentiality are clearly unlawful. The Council cannot itself alter the Treaty’s regulations from simple to qualified majority voting. The new rules directly interfere with the section in the Treaty of Amsterdam promising new rules on transparency. Nor has the Swedish Presidency submitted the rules to the European Parliament. We must call upon our fellow MEPs from Spain, France and Germany to strike a blow for transparency now. Those three countries have placed the Swedish Presidency in such a humiliating position that it is having to betray its own key concerns regarding transparency and deliver secrecy instead. We still have an EU in which neither the ombudsman, the Court of Auditors nor the Committee on Budgetary Control can obtain all documents for perusal. To that extent, we need the commendable Swedish rules on the right of access to documents and the freedom to provide information."@en1

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