Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-05-15-Speech-3-304"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-05-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Division of competences between the EU and the Member States2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020515.10.3-304"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-05-15-Speech-3-3052
lpv:speaker	lp:Antonio Tajani2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Forza Italia (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2003-10-14)3 substitute; PETI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I see the Lamassoure report as a major contribution to the debate on the future of Europe, a key tool that will help Parliament to play a leading role in the impending creation of the Constitution. It certainly represents a step forwards that sheds some light on the sensitive issue of competences at exactly the time when this issue is at the centre of the Convention’s debate. The impending constituent Treaty, which we are convinced will be the basic standard for the new Europe, must encourage the development of a Union with a single foreign and defence policy at last, a Union which is, at last, able to take action and work for peace in the Mediterranean area and elsewhere, a Union which is highly competent in the field of security, immigration control, the internal market and monetary policy. I do not think the Lamassoure report prefigures a European superstate in the stranglehold of creeping bureaucracy; in other words, it does not provide for centralism but for a federation of nation States founded on the principles of solidarity and subsidiarity, with competences distributed between the various institutional levels: European, Member State and regional. As regards the latter, Mr Lamassoure, there is, in all probability, a need for greater clarity. It would also be appropriate to go into the competences of the other local institutions, and by that I mean the cities themselves. The objective is to create a new Europe which will be increasingly close to the citizens. However, Mr President – and I join Mr Napolitano in his protest – how can we ask the Europeans to involve themselves and take the lead in building the new Europe if even we resign ourselves to holding almost secret debates on issues as important as those we are discussing in this House this evening?"@en1

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