Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-07-07-Speech-4-065-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-07-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Modification of the Act concerning the election of the Members of the European Parliament (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20110707.4.4-065-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-07-07-Speech-4-066-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Íñigo Méndez De Vigo2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFCO (2009-07-16--2011-12-22)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP (2009-07-24--2011-12-22)3 unknown; Partido Popular (2009-07-14--2011-12-22)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2009-09-16--2011-12-22)3 member; ECON (2009-07-16--2011-12-22)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the Treaty of Lisbon grants Parliament the power to initiate a reform of the Electoral Act, and therefore we have to do so. We also have to do so because, soon, the MEP seats in Parliament will be redistributed with the entry of Croatia. Therefore, the report by Mr Duff, whom I want to congratulate for the work he has done, is included in this field. The Electoral Act, as you know, dates back to 1976. A great deal of time has elapsed since then, and we therefore need to improve it. The debate taking place today is likely to focus on the pan-European list, and I say pan-European because my group has tabled an amendment along these lines that we will uphold, with all the more reason today, in honour of the recently deceased Archduke Otto von Habsburg, who used the term ‘Pan-Europe’. The pan-European list appears to raise serious doubts. Some people are telling us, ‘It is too soon.’ However, I am sure, ladies and gentlemen, that on 8 May 1950, an advisor told Chancellor Adenauer or Mr Schuman, ‘Minister, Chancellor, it is too early to make a Franco-German agreement to pool coal and steel.’ For conservatives, everything is always too soon. For those who want nothing to change, it is always too soon. For those of us in favour of progress, those who want Europe to move forward, we want to have high hopes, Madam President. One of William Faulkner’s characters said, in a very glorious way, ‘Our dreams must be like mountains so that, wherever we are, we can see them and pursue them.’ The transnational, pan-European list fits into this idea of dreams, ideals, poetry and struggle. Madam President, the style of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) is to have the greatest possible consensus. We will seek the consensus needed to introduce it here. Nevertheless, as Paul Valéry said about every poem, ‘It is never finished; only abandoned.’ Today we are abandoning it, but we will come back to it, Madam President."@en1
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