Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-18-Speech-3-066"
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"Mr President, I am trying to summarise that we need to create a citizen’s ownership of EU policies, to make them understandable and relevant, and to make the EU institutions accountable and reliable to those they serve.
We need to have a broad and permanent debate on the future of the European Union between the democratic institutions in the EU and the citizens, both at national and EU level, and we need to empower citizens by giving them access to information so that they can have an informed debate on the European Union. We have already proposed creating a framework for that, as Jo Leinen has already pointed to – and thank you for doing so. I thank Mr Lenarčič for trying to find a solution to that.
I thank Parliament for its support in trying to be more effective in communicating with citizens, because then we have to be serious about it and give it the resources and the framework we need to work in partnership with Member States as well and, of course, to make our texts and our decisions as readable as possible.
We had a debate on the consolidated Treaty. It took the Council too long to accept and to publish a consolidated Treaty, but in the end it did so, and this is, of course, one tool with which we are able to reach out in a better way to our citizens.
We have to continue to draw conclusions and learn the lessons also from the Irish example, but to respect the ‘no’ vote. We do that best by actually knowing what were their concerns, by finding the solutions together and allowing the other Member States also to have their say. I hope that this debate will also serve as an input to the leaders’ meeting tomorrow and on Friday. I thank you very much for a good and constructive debate."@en1
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