Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-06-13-Speech-3-030"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-06-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation for European Council (Göteborg 15/16 June 2001)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010613.1.3-030"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-06-13-Speech-3-0312
lpv:speaker	lp:Nuala Ahern2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, the Treaty of Nice is dead and must not be given the kiss of life. To do so would be to show contempt for the voice of the people, not just in Ireland, but throughout Europe. The rejection of the Treaty of Nice by the Irish people is not a rejection of enlargement. No one campaigned against enlargement on the "no" side. We want to show solidarity with the people of Eastern Europe and to give them the cohesion funds and agricultural funds that we ourselves received. What people were asked to decide on in Nice are new ways of running the EU, which are unacceptable. I should like to caution and warn EU ministers in Göteborg to consider carefully the effect that a second resounding defeat would have for the Nice proposals. They should think carefully about the effects on their own electorates who are watching with increasing disenchantment the distant and cumbersome European superstructure. The intergovernmental method of negotiating EU treaties where leaders wheel-and-deal behind closed doors on matters of importance for all our citizens has come to an end and is now also dead. A new method has to be found which leads to results that are understood and accepted by all of us, involving national and regional parliaments and, indeed, civil society. The Nice result is not an outburst of Euro-scepticism. It is an indication of a serious rethink about Europe across the continent. I woke up one morning to find that Irish soldiers were being sent to the Rapid Reaction Force. I did not know how that decision was made. None of our citizens knew how that decision was made. We voted "no" because of those kinds of problems."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3,3 vice-chair; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3,3 unknown; Green Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3,3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The President cut the speaker off)"1 "Ahern (Verts/ALE )."1

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