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"Madam President, I would like to begin by warmly congratulating Mrs Smet on her truly remarkable report, the principal virtue of which is its timeliness.
The open coordination method has become the general rule on the basis of our experience of the Luxembourg process and of the possibilities opened up by Articles 126 and 128 of the Treaty; it is a timely process, because this generalisation has also allowed many issues to be raised in Parliament – in relation to insufficiencies and gaps which have repeatedly been condemned and which should be resolved – and because the Convention is about to produce a constitutional Treaty, offering Parliament a great opportunity to make its voice heard.
It is therefore a timely project and a highly topical initiative, because the Convention and the Intergovernmental Conference are going to offer us the opportunity to overcome these difficulties, which, as other Members have pointed out, relate to certain fundamental visible deficiencies, the lack of openness – despite being called an open method – and also the inefficient coordination.
We therefore have an excellent opportunity and Mrs Smet’s initiative offers us an excellent reason to continue working. Secondly, Mrs Smet has done great work, a great report, into which she has incorporated the best ideas emerging from the debates we have held in the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. We socialist Members of course feel very comfortable with this report; although you and I, Mrs Smet, are very far apart physically and ideologically, we are in fact very close on this issue since you are truly dealing with and resolving our group's main concerns. You establish a balance between all the institutions, you spell out the role of the Commission and give Parliament a central role, thereby overcoming the significant democratic deficit we have observed. You open up channels for transparency, in order to incorporate all the players – national and regional parliaments, NGOs, social actors – which we value highly. You call for an institutionalisation of the Treaty – which we believe to be essential – you define the scope in order to prevent this method from replacing or encroaching on areas in which there are Community instruments of a legislative nature – I believe you do this very well – and, finally, you guarantee that assessment work is carried out so that the method may be effective.
We socialist Members, Madam President, are therefore going to give this report our fullest support and we hope that it will assist in European integration and help to provide European problems with a European solution, even going somewhat further than mere intergovernmentalism."@en1
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