Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-12-03-Speech-3-063"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to thank the French Presidency of the Council for having pointed out and solved many problems during difficult times in recent months. However, we know that the ability to act is also heavily dependent on the Treaty of Lisbon. Here we see that there is a report from both the Irish Parliaments. You, Mr President, have stated that it is a very responsible, far-sighted and intelligent report which includes concerns but also shows ways in which we Europeans can solve this problem together.
I should like to invite the French Presidency to undertake the development of a roadmap which makes it possible to include and take seriously the Irish positions and concerns which have nothing to do with the Treaty, such as the question of commissioners, but also ways out of the democratic deficit which they themselves wish to remedy by means of better relations between Parliament and government in Ireland. On this basis we have an opportunity to ratify this Treaty if we follow the path which the Irish Parliament has quite clearly indicated. I think that we should take this path to encourage our Irish friends and that, in doing so, we should have a schedule in mind to avoid the possibility of us falling behind as a result of the British elections being brought forward. The financial crisis clearly shows that more and more citizens are recognising that Europe is indispensable, as the French Presidency of the Council has proved in Georgia and in the financial crisis."@en1
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