Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-05-13-Speech-2-066"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-05-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Exercise of Commission implementing powers2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030513.4.2-066"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-05-13-Speech-2-0672
lpv:speaker	lp:Jeffrey Titford2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I am distinctly uneasy about this proposal, but there does not seem to be an easy answer. On the one hand, Mr Corbett wants to give the Parliament equivalency with the Council, suggesting that somehow this improves the accountability of the system and by inference its democratic legitimacy. On the other hand, the Council reflects the primacy of the nation-states, in theory at least, and should have the final say on whether a legislative instrument should have legal force. Again, on the one hand, the problem is that the secretive and complex system adopted by the Council does not facilitate external scrutiny, which therefore negates any resemblance of accountability and therefore democracy. On the other hand, the Parliament, despite its pretensions, lacks the European demos and therefore cannot claim to be a democratic institution. On that basis, the current state of affairs is not satisfactory, but nor is what is proposed."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; CONT (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; UK Independence Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Titford (EDD )."1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph