Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-12-05-Speech-4-035"

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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	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021205.2.4-035"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-12-05-Speech-4-0362
lpv:speaker	lp:Esko Seppänen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 unknown; Vasemmistoliitto (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in the position he adopted on this issue, Mr Prodi was a strong advocate of the Community method, which is the federation method. He also represented opportunism on a large scale. If you swear by the Community method you are not supposed to suggest that the Council has a right to dismiss the Commission. To use President Prodi’s own language, the proposal is stupid . The Commissioners are a collection of civil servants who do not need to inspire parliamentary confidence. If there are abuses they must be penalised just like other civil servants. The Commission wants to increase its power at the expense of political decision-makers. It was unclear as to whether the earlier proposal to grant the Commissioners unequal status is to remain in force. If it is, it means the EU would have its own ‘Politburo’, consisting, one assumes, of representatives of the big countries. From the point of view of the small countries, that is not democracy. The Commission’s demand to withdraw the system of consensual decision-making, or Member States’ right of veto, is an attack on the Member States. The right of veto is the last defence against supranational, unequal systems of decision-making under the Community method. Those representing the Commission in the Convention’s working group have been militarising the Union and creating a new European legal area in which there would be Euro-law and Euro-order. The Commission is calling for the common foreign and security policy to come under its control, with competence to be transferred from the Member States to the Commission. We must not allow the last vestiges of Member State independence to be crushed. The Commission had and still has support here for its proposal from the European federalists, whose aim it is to erode the independence of Member States and turn the EU into a federation. There is already a federal currency. The federal army will commence operations next year. Federal law and order are being got ready. The federalists are over-represented in the Convention on the constitution of the EU. Member States should not approve draft proposals for a federation drawn up by the Commission or the Convention simply as they are. We must not make compromises over the Commission’s status as a body of civil servants as opposed to a political government. Mr Prodi, power wielded by the Commission is not democracy. You are a servant, who has now adopted a position on matters that are the business of your masters."@en1

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