Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-09-05-Speech-3-028"

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dcterms:Date	"2001-09-05"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20010905.2.3-028"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-09-05-Speech-3-0292
lpv:speaker	lp:Ole Krarup2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; PETI (1999-10-08--2001-09-09)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EDD (1999-07-20--2001-12-10)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Folkebevægelsen mod EU (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with South-east Europe (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"The temporary committee’s report expresses a thought-provoking blend of power and impotence, something we can, of course, see in the introductory quotation from one of the great satirists of antiquity, Juvenal, who formulates the hard but highly thought-provoking question, ‘Who watches the watchmen?’ Everyone seems to be agreed that the Committee’s main conclusion is an important demonstration of the fact that this Parliament can achieve a certain power. The main conclusion is that completely convincing documentation has now successfully been put together to show that this worldwide surveillance system does in fact exist, but that is something of which we were, in actual fact, already well aware. The Committee has assembled and registered documentation that has actually been available for years, at any rate to whoever has been prepared to do research into this state of affairs. However, it is valuable to have the huge amount of documentation that has been assembled. It is required reading for every democrat. However, this is, of course, where the impotence comes in, first of all through the documentation we have to do without. The report concludes that it is ‘surprising, not to say worrying, that many senior Community figures including European Commissioners, who gave evidence to the temporary committee, claimed to be unaware of this phenomenon’. The statement is the closest approximation to an acknowledgement of the fact that the senior figures in the Commission are hiding behind a wall of silence and selective memory loss. To put it bluntly, they are full of lies. Did you hear that, Commissioner? A further demonstration of impotence lies in the sad conclusion that there is no effective supervision in terms of the national constitutions. The report has an annex containing a survey of parliamentary and judicial supervision in the Member States. Quite a few Member States have neither judicial nor parliamentary supervision and others – such as my own country, Denmark – have formal systems which, in practice, have shown their astonishing lack of effectiveness. The sad answer to the question, ‘Who watches the watchmen?’, is nobody."@en1

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