Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-12-05-Speech-4-045"

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dcterms:Date	"2002-12-05"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20021205.2.4-045"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-12-05-Speech-4-0462
lpv:speaker	lp:Hanja Maij-weggen2
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lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr Prodi can indeed understand me, because I am sitting right beside him, so we can communicate fairly easily. I wanted to start by complimenting the Commission President on the excellent document that has been presented. I am also pleased that this document is so very much in keeping with Parliament's position and that it is also so much in tune with the Benelux Memorandum that has just come out. First of all I am pleased that Mr Prodi does not favour a President of the European Union as Mr Giscard d'Estaing has proposed. We mainly see the President of the European Union in the role of President of the Commission. These two positions must coincide as far as possible. If there is to be a President of the European Union, then it must be the President of the Commission. What seems a good idea to us, or at least what seems a good idea to me, is that the future Commission will certainly have three, if not four Vice-Presidents. For example, one for foreign policy, that could be Mr Solana’s role. One for internal security, Mr Vitorino’s range of responsibilities. One for socio-economic affairs and one for the more technical Commissioners. If you divide the work up in this way, then the President of the Commission will have rather more freedom to take on these presidential duties. We are also very pleased with the emphasis on the Community method and that there are proposals for legislative simplification. There are good proposals for this in the Convention, that go a little further than what the Commission has proposed. We think that in the future there should really only be talk of regulations, of directives, of decisions and of the implementing legislation and that will be enough. And that as far as possible everything must be done by way of codecision. Finally, we are also pleased that the Commission has not put forward the absurd idea of a Congress. We think this Congress a bad idea. What we do think important is that there should be greater involvement of citizens and that greater transparency should make citizens better aware of what is happening in the European Union. This is what the Commission is proposing. Consequently, Mr Prodi, you have our full support."@en1

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