Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-06-07-Speech-4-020"
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"Ladies and gentlemen, the Union does not appear, in its day-to-day running, to have been plunged into crisis by the failure to adopt the EU Constitution. According to studies, the Union’s functioning has not been impeded following the 2004 enlargement. On the contrary, the legislative process has in fact gathered pace. Let us not talk about the speed of the process of adopting documents, however, but about the quality of those documents.
The new Treaty must guarantee a level playing field for all Member States, regardless of their size and how long they have been in the Union. It must not, under any circumstances, distort still further the weighting of decision-making and voting. The Union’s democratic legitimacy must be based on the principle of equal representation for citizens and for Member States. The decision-making and lawmaking processes must be transparent and the governments and parliaments of the Member States must be in a position to monitor those processes. The subsidiarity principle must be strengthened and attempts must not be made to ride roughshod over it, as often happens.
The document should not contain a Charter of Fundamental Rights. Instead, the Union should accede to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms signed in Rome in 1950."@en1
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