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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this has been a very heated, highly interesting debate; I have noted all the issues raised, vital issues for our future: from the Balkans question to equality of the Union’s citizens, to safeguarding the Institutions. During this brief reply, I will restrict myself simply to making an appeal, which I consider absolutely necessary and indispensable today when, at Thessaloniki, we will have to take fundamental decisions for our whole future.
I would like to appeal to the Convention to give us the response that many of you – starting with Mr Wurtz – have said that the Convention has not yet provided. There is a very simple reason for this. We decided to form the Convention during our institutions’ deepest crisis; we decided on it all together after the night of debate at Nice, when we saw that the intergovernmental method of negotiations between States – precisely, during the intergovernmental nights of talks – did not provide satisfactory results; we decided to take that path in order to restore to our people and our parliaments the sovereignty which befits them.
Now the Convention has got down to business: it was to be a finite process; the Convention was to give the Intergovernmental Conference a finished product. Instead, a parallel process has emerged: a kind of Intergovernmental Conference parallel to the Convention has come about, which has divided into various fragments and which is in danger, at this time, of further fragmentation. I repeat what Mrs Frassoni said: currently a false impression is being given, a false message that the Convention is split on everything. Therefore, my appeal is very simple: we want the Convention to carry out the Convention’s work fully, autonomously; we want it to produce, as you have all requested, a clear, systematic draft, because the Convention Assembly represents all the citizens, all the countries, all the institutions of Europe. We need its voice, we need it to carry out its role in full.
Over recent months, we have been divided over basic policy points and we have also suffered humiliation in our foreign policy. Do we wish to deny ourselves the instruments we need to restore our dignity? Do we wish to deny ourselves the courage to advance proposals which are becoming instruments necessary for our survival? I can summarise with great satisfaction the contribution of all the leaders of the main political groups – whom I have the pleasure of seeing here before me – who, as one, have put forward coherent, courageous proposals on the coalition rules, on Parliament’s role, on the future dynamics of the Institutions. They have put forward courageous proposals for both today and tomorrow, such as combining the President of the Commission and the President of the Council. They have given us, all working together, a single framework of what they want for the Europe of the future. And so, just as I am calling on the Convention to express a single, strong opinion and to present it to the Intergovernmental Conference
I am calling on you, chairmen of the largest European parliamentary groups, to tell our friends and fellow Members in plenary to speak out loud and clear, to make clear the conditions under which they will agree to sign the new agreement upon which Europe must be built. This is my appeal to you, because, at this time, we all need the Convention’s voice for the new Europe."@en1
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