Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-03-24-Speech-3-095"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-03-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Development of the European Citizens’ Initiative based on Article 11(4) of the Treaty on European Union (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20100324.13.3-095"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-03-24-Speech-3-0962
lpv:speaker	lp:Carlo Casini2
lpv:spokenAs	chair; AFCO (2009-07-20--2012-01-18)3 substitute; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Unione dei Democratici cristiani e dei Democratici di Centro (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2009-07-20--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I welcomed the statements by Mr López Garrido and Mr Šefčovič. The new Treaty of Lisbon urges us to swiftly adopt a systematic course of action to promote the citizens’ initiative, which is testament to the existence of a European people. Indeed, it is a well-known fact that one of the harshest criticisms of the Union is that it is not a fully democratic structure. The Treaty of Lisbon has sought to reduce the democratic deficit in several ways, including by making provision for at least one million European citizens to submit a proposal for a legislative initiative. This new instrument, in order to be a serious tool, will have to produce legal effects of a certain importance. It certainly cannot have equivalent value to the pre-existing petitions which are signed by a wide range of individuals – a clear distinction must be made – and it must therefore be regulated in such a way as to prevent its abuse and still allow broad discussion, as the expression of informed and verifiable popular consensus. However, the most important aspect of the initiative laid down in Article 11 of the Treaty of Lisbon is its symbolic significance: the democratic deficit is being tackled not only by the decision-making power of the people’s representatives, but even more so by the very existence of a European people which is not just the mathematical sum of the citizens of the individual nations. Therefore, with regard to the rules we are considering, there are two aspects that I consider to be particularly important: the first concerns the subject matter, which must be – as someone already said – a European issue; the second is the distribution of the minimum number of signatories across a significant number of Member States, representing an appropriate percentage with respect to the electoral weight of each country. I hope that the new rules will help citizens of France, Italy, Germany, Spain and so on feel that they are, first and foremost, citizens of Europe."@en1
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