Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-01-14-Speech-3-018"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-01-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Programme of the Irish presidency2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040114.1.3-018"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-01-14-Speech-3-0192
lpv:speaker	lp:Paolo Costa2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; ELDR (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 unknown; I Democratici (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2003-09-09--2004-07-19)3 chair; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2003-09-09--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President-in-Office, the priorities you have proposed here today deserve a general welcome and just a couple of comments that I shall make. Your varied and complex programme indicates that there is now a programmatic for Europe, a common heritage of ideas and objectives that will increasingly make the Union a necessary institution for Europe and the whole world. First of all, this programmatic requires that we should have the rules and institutions that will enable us to achieve our common objectives and, even before that, it requires that trust should be restored in the grand design for the integration of Europe. In recent months we have seen too many signs of a selfish attitude towards the European adventure, reducing the Union to a self-service institution in which each country periodically reassesses its membership on the basis of its own short-term goals. The breach of the Stability and Growth Pact by France and Germany, which ECOFIN permitted on 25 November, or the vetoes from all sides that prevented the European constitution from being adopted are just the most blatant examples of a kind of Euro-selfishness that must be firmly stamped upon straight away, before everything becomes more difficult in the Europe of 25. Mr President-in-Office, please make every effort for the Intergovernmental Conference to conclude its work by approving the Constitution during this Presidency. I am sure I can say that Parliament is with you in wanting to achieve this Constitution, based to a great extent on the work of the Convention, as soon as possible. It is an event that all sincere pro-Europeans are waiting for. It is with the primary purpose of giving new impetus to the grand design for Europe that I should like to raise two points about your programme of work. The first is the scant attention paid to cohesion policies, and the second is the urgent need to develop true physical integration for Europe, promoting mobility everywhere within its area through the implementation of the European transport network. The cohesion of the whole of Europe and the involvement of all the regions in the sustainable European process are an expression of that solidarity which I believe is fundamental if European citizens are to identify with the process that we are carrying forward."@en1
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