Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-11-19-Speech-3-008"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-11-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Progress report on the Intergovernmental Conference including budgetary aspects2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031119.1.3-008"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-11-19-Speech-3-0092
lpv:speaker	lp:Pat Cox2
lpv:spoken text	"The next item is the Council and Commission statements – progress report on the Intergovernmental Conference including budgetary aspects. I should like to inform colleagues in the House that over the past several weeks I have been making intensive political visits to a number of the capital cities of the countries whose Finance Ministers, at Ecofin, had sought to enter through the back door and remove from Parliament the delicate balance we had negotiated through the Convention. This is an area where we, as an institution, need – to borrow a phrase – to 'put down some red lines'. This is important for this Parliament, not for corporate reasons. It goes to the very heart of the role of parliamentary democracy, of representative democracy and of public accountability. The power of the purse has been a key defining issue in the history of parliamentarianism as it has evolved and we cannot countenance in this Parliament any institution by going backwards in the name of European progress for tomorrow."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	president; Conference of Presidents (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3 president; European Parliament (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Independent (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; Parliament's Bureau (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1 "President."1

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