Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-12-05-Speech-4-029"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-12-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Commission contribution to the work of the European Convention2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021205.2.4-029"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-12-05-Speech-4-0302
lpv:speaker	lp:Jens-Peter Bonde2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; JuniBevægelsen (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; EDD (2001-01-30--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Presidents (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, not unexpectedly, the Commission is proposing that it be given more power. The European Parliament and the EU’s prime ministers are also agitating to be given more power. It is not difficult to foresee the compromise at the Rome Summit in December of next year. The prime ministers scarcely wish to relinquish foreign and security policy, so they will choose someone from the European Council to represent the EU to the outside world. They may, for example, get Tony Blair to become the EU’s first president and then make Mr Aznar President of the next Commission. Instead of concerning itself with foreign and security policy, the Commission would be given power over the developed cooperation on juridico-political and police matters for which, of course, Mr Aznar has a special predilection. The Commission may also be given increased executive powers, and Mr Aznar’s leadership become a proper government that stands accountable. Yes, but to whom? It will scarcely be the European Parliament alone but, presumably, Mr Giscard d’Estaing’s proposed Congress in which the national parliaments too may be taken hostage and find themselves with nothing but a congress of yes men, designed for applauding the prime ministers’ election of commissioners by majority voting. In return, the European Parliament will see the distinction between compulsory and non-compulsory expenditure abolished and so be given more power over expenditure. It will also see common decision-making extended to include more areas and so be given greater influence over legislation. The EU’s prime ministers are being given more power and the Commission is being strengthened, as is the European Parliament. When all the supranational institutions are reinforced, someone must lose out, and it is the voters, who will no longer have the final word concerning legislation in quite a few areas. They are left with less democracy, every time that more supranational and undemocratic power is handed out in the EU."@en1

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