Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-05-22-Speech-2-214"
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"My dear Mr Prodi, precisely because I have the same passion as you for Europe, I am convinced that in order to relaunch the constitutional process we need a new impulse of energy based on democracy and rights. I am increasingly convinced that the intergovernmental approach is not the solution to the problems, but is a part of them and is liable to lead us into a mini-Treaty or even a two-speed Europe.
It is the citizens and MEPs that must now take the lead, with a new constitutional mandate entrusted to a European Parliament that has these functions, with the aims of a new text and a European referendum; we need to change the text and the context.
We need to have, at the centre, clear enforceable rights that define European citizenship. These are the right to work and rights at work that confirm that, for Europe, stable, high-quality jobs are the norm, and not the highly precarious jobs that are being developed with ‘flexicurity’!
We need a guaranteed right to the environment, which requires innovative policies, based on cooperation, and multi-faceted visions such as those that should lead to ratification of a post-Kyoto agreement, instead of merely the philosophy of commercial competition.
We need a right to peace, born of the rejection of war, and an EU policy actively based on these values and practices, as its own foreign policy.
We need a new Europe, the only one possible, which is becoming increasingly necessary. We can build it based on the people, together with the MEPs."@en1
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