Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-01-17-Speech-3-059"

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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.20070117.3.3-059"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-01-17-Speech-3-0602
lpv:speaker	lp:Hartmut Nassauer2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2006-11-15--2007-02-14)3 substitute; IMCO (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3 chair; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2004-09-21--2007-03-13)3 member; LIBE (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2004-09-22--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, you, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, as the Head of the German Government, are heir to a great European tradition; Mr Schulz was right to point that out, and I must spring to his defence against the charge unjustly levelled at him by my colleague Mr Langen of having forgotten your predecessor when listing the significant Heads of the German Government. I can assure you that Mr Schulz is not absent-minded and that he does not say things without thinking first. Our efforts are focused on the constitutional treaty, and so are our expectations of your presidency. If I might use your image of the European house, it is a house in which there is an audible murmuring, a house in which everyone would like to live, but the fact that the Netherlands and France have said ‘no’ means that the constitutional treaty is straddling two levels – the councils and governments on the one hand and the citizens on the other, and it is obvious that it has, for the moment, been brought down not by the councils and governments, but by the public, which is why it is they that we must endeavour to win round. The proverbial sixty-four thousand dollar question is: how are we going to do that? Coming back to your image of the European house, we all want to live in it, but the people who actually do, want to organise the interior decorating themselves. The interior décor of the European house is subject to too many European rules, and that tends to make people annoyed. There is excessive European regulation, including of things that do not need to be regulated by Europe at all. In many cases, this is attributable to the requirements of national governments, but occasionally – with all due respect to its President – to the Commission’s excessive enthusiasm for regulating things. That is why the reduction of bureaucracy is an essential consideration, and you have our fullest support in trying to achieve it."@en1

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