Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-23-Speech-2-059"
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"en.20071023.7.2-059"2
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"President-in-Office of the Council, President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, the best way of celebrating the important result achieved last weekend, thanks to the mandate negotiated during the German Presidency and the effective commitment of the Portuguese Presidency, that I would especially like to commend, is to make effective use of the new institutional instruments and achieve better results.
Recently, European citizens have repeatedly been told, quite rightly, that we needed a new institutional framework to adapt the Europe of Nice to the Europe of enlargement. It is now time to prove that this reorganised Europe is capable of fulfilling its new mission.
Fifty years after the signing of the Treaty of Rome the threat hanging over Europe is no longer that of war or perpetual walls of woe. The new challenge is to face the global world in which there are ever more people consuming and producing, where borders are disappearing and no European country is really a world player. We have to face the fears of globalisation and the technology revolution and prove that Europe, strengthened by the new Treaty, is capable of discovering new paths and creating new wealth. Yet this is also an opportunity to devise new solutions to the new problems. With six, twelve or even fifteen members it was easier to promote closer ties between citizens and the Community structures, but today it is the toughest of challenges.
As the EU enlarges, the centre of power is also becoming more distant from the citizen. This adverse effect can be seen
in the end of the rotating presidencies of the Council or the abandonment of the principle of one Commissioner per Member State. We have to counter this adverse effect and Parliament has a decisive role in this task, to attain more transparency and less bureaucracy, more development and less unnecessary legislation, more cooperation with national parliaments and less distance from citizens, more cohesion and less inequality. Freed from the doubts about our internal organisation, let us be a symbol of courage and let us take up the challenges of modern times. Today we should celebrate our capacity to unite."@en1
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