Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-10-24-Speech-3-159"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-10-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:International trade2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011024.7.3-159"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-10-24-Speech-3-1602
lpv:speaker	lp:Claude Turmes2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-12-16--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Les Verts (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; CONT (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"The challenge that the Désir report sets the European Parliament is to make world trade more free but also more equitable and sustainable under a multilateral system and within the auspices of a reformed WTO. Although it states its support for multilateralism in international trade negotiations, this report has the intellectual honesty to admit that globalisation, in its current state, has some serious shortcomings. The specific proposals put forward by the rapporteur on reforming the international institutions warrant our attention: greater transparency and reform of the settlement procedure. I also wish to say something about democratic control: my own view is that a parliamentary forum within the WTO would be democratic in name only rather than genuine parliamentary control. Such control can only be guaranteed when national parliaments have real control over their governments in negotiations, and when the European Parliament, Mr Lamy, has real control over the Commission and not only the nominal control that it has today. If the European Parliament’s position for the forthcoming round is based on the Désir report, it will have to be to reform the WTO, to implement the so-called Uruguay agreements, but without extending them to cover issues that remain controversial. In voting for the Désir report, I also see a very clear advance by the Socialist Group here in the European Parliament, which is finally, after many years, returning to its true values, which are solidarity and the better distribution of wealth, and I am also pleased by the words of Mr Verhofstadt, this morning: he has, at long last, understood that dialogue with the political wing that wishes to see a more equitable form of trade cannot take place if it is consigned to the bin on the pretext that its members are anti-globalists."@en1

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