Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-05-11-Speech-3-017"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, what has been said so far in this debate has proved once again quite clearly that we are a big payer in global terms, but not yet a big player in political terms. It is not enough for us to merely offer explanations as to why this is so, and to express our regret; we are called upon to take action, and we must do everything in our power to ensure that this happens without delay, in order to close the gap between what we are and what we would like to be. Unless this happens, we will be unable to honour our commitments, both within the EU and outside of it.
Both the Council report and the Commission report were not so much reports on the World Bank as a thorough analysis of our shortcomings. The two reports make it quite clear that the problem does not lie with the World Bank, but with us. As the President-in-Office of the Council has already said, our problem is that it is the Member States that bear responsibility for this issue, rather than the Council, even though one could be forgiven for thinking that the two are one and the same. In their capacity as Council members, the Member States should do everything in their power to ensure that the Council initiates measures to remedy this shortcoming.
A comment was made to the effect that we should start this process at some point in the future. Rather than leaving it until some point in the future, however, we must start it now, and without delay. The Constitution provides us with an opportunity to do so, as it grants legal status to the European Union. We must take advantage of this status in order to address the failings of our external representation.
As I see it, the policies we pursue within the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, the UN and the EIB are interconnected. All of our representatives in these institutions must speak with one voice and be coordinated by one person if we are to be able to perform the duties incumbent upon us throughout the world. The increasing influence of globalisation on our actions means that there is a growing need for a global order, for a social and economic order and for an order of principles. We will be unable to play our role properly within these organisations if we do not start by establishing an order of this kind in the EU. It is up to us to act, not the World Bank."@en1
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