Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-10-22-Speech-2-241"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-10-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Access to sensitive Council documents on security and defence2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021022.8.2-241"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-10-22-Speech-2-2422
lpv:speaker	lp:Maurizio Turco2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-02-05--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; NA (2001-10-03--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to thank Mr Brok very much for having taken the initiative, together with the President of the European Parliament, of producing a clearer, more detailed framework regulating Parliament’s access to sensitive Council documents. Although there are gaps in the agreement, as the rapporteur himself points out when he says that Parliament has had to make concessions to the Council, it is, at least, a step towards greater democratic control. In my capacity as a member of the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs, I find it absolutely inconceivable that Parliament should be blatantly denied access to documents in the field of justice and home affairs, the very area in which rules have a direct impact on the citizens’ rights and freedoms. The Justice and Home Affairs Council of 14 and 15 October discussed the framework decision on drugs, but the most recent document available on the register dates back to June. A number of documents have been circulated since then but the European Parliament has not seen any of them. Why is it that the citizens are being prevented from knowing what compromise the Danish Presidency has proposed? Maybe it is fear that people will find out that the ministers do not respect the mandates of their governments, parliaments and citizens behind the closed doors of the Council and that they are therefore doing at European level what they lack the courage to do at national level. Even the Danish Minister, Mrs Lene Espersen, lacked the courage to describe the contents of this compromise to the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights today. One last example: at least 20 of the 39 documents discussed at the meeting of Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs of 14 and 15 October were not published on the register. We believe that there must be an end to this way of treating the European Parliament and the citizens who elected it, who continue to be disgracefully humiliated by the Council."@en1

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