Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-01-16-Speech-1-031"
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"Mr President, I hope you will send a message of congratulations to the Council on its decision to meet henceforth in public when discussing codecision legislation. This meets a long-standing demand of the European Parliament, and the British Presidency is to be congratulated on achieving this breakthrough.
The UK Presidency was quite a good one for the European Parliament in other respects too. It agreed, firstly, to reopen Council discussions on the comitology system in order to give Parliament the same rights of scrutiny and call-back as the Council. Secondly, it agreed to take the data retention proposals as first-pillar legislation under codecision rather than as an intergovernmental third-pillar fix, as some other governments wanted. Finally, it set an example as to how presidencies should deal with Parliament, with a record number of ministerial appearances, including no fewer than four by Prime Minister Blair himself.
I hope the Austrian Presidency will do as well. It has not started well on the institutional front, with Chancellor Schüssel’s quite ill-informed attack on the Court of Justice."@en1
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