Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-01-17-Speech-3-055"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-01-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Programme of the German presidency (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070117.3.3-055"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-01-17-Speech-3-0562
lpv:speaker	lp:Bernhard Rapkay2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3 member; ECON (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2007-03-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mrs Merkel, in her speech, used the well-worn image of the house created by European integration, and I believe that image is a good one; that is why it is used so often. I particularly liked what she said about that house having a soul and about the need for us to find it. It has to be said, though, that building a house involves a variety of people. It involves architects; many of the architects have now spoken. It also involves, though, small-time artisans, and those who have to add the finishing touches to the work, and such artisans are an honourable trade, among whose number I count myself. You have to be rather careful what tools these craftsmen are allowed to get their hands on. I would ask you not to allow the couple of references you have made to the subject to be taken too far. We are all alongside you and alongside those who advocate cutting back bureaucracy, but it is when that is used as a means of agitating against regulations that we actually need that I have a problem with it, for a proper community cannot live without proper rules. As our former President, Mr Borrell, said, ‘better lawmaking’ does not mean the absence of regulation; that is what you have to look out for, and, above all, you should also take care that the European Union is not always left to introduce those rules alone. If you want to press on with cutting back bureaucracy, then you will have to take action, not only at Member State level, but also across the European Union as a whole, for I can tell you from personal experience of the way things are in my own country – although I cannot speak about the situation in other Member States – that the bureaucratic hindrances thrown up by the Member State itself are far more numerous than those originating from the European Union."@en1
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