Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-01-17-Speech-3-053"
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"en.20070117.3.3-053"2
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"Chancellor Merkel, the German Presidency has not shrunk from including difficult tasks in its work programme. The Presidency’s goals to continue the full liberalisation of Europe’s postal services markets and its commitment to complete the creation of the internal market in gas and electricity are highly laudable. I hope that, by using its influence, Germany will indeed manage to achieve a shift in Europe’s security of energy supply policy, and that this will include forging a unified policy with Russia which has support from all the Member States. All in all, most of the Presidency’s programme should be seen as a genuine instrument for furthering the process of integration in the Union and garnering the support of European citizens. In my view, the same cannot be said of the Presidency’s first priority, which is to return to the debate on the Constitution. The rejection of the Constitution by two large Member States is, at the least, a signal that the European Union has become too distant and incomprehensible even for voters in the founding Member States. I was one of the members of the European Convention who urged that we should not write a European Constitution, but instead improve the existing treaties to bring the European Union closer to citizens in the Member States, both large and small, old and new. I urge the same course of action today."@en1
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