Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-05-23-Speech-3-126-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-05-23"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120523.6.3-126-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Helmut Scholz2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries (2012-03-06--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2012-05-21--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2009-09-16--2012-06-12)3 member; EUL/NGL (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; INTA (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; DIE LINKE. (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFCO (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, at a time when our citizens are increasingly losing confidence in the European Union and the application of the law practised by its policies in many areas, Mr Martin’s own-initiative report can only be welcomed, and I would like to expressly lend my group’s support to this own-initiative report. It concerns taking further practical steps to assert the right explicitly laid down in Article 14 of the Treaty of Lisbon and the European Parliament’s task of exercising political control. I therefore do not agree with the previous speaker that we should not expand the right of inquiry or the rights of the European Parliament in this way, for how can and should Article 226 intervene in practice, in concrete terms, if it becomes necessary to set up temporary committees of inquiry in order to uncover and put a stop to, and I quote: ‘alleged contraventions or maladministration in the implementation of Union law’. We need a permanent inquiry procedure that functions in real terms, is transparent and creates transparency. Inquiry proceedings do indeed have an important role to play in a parliamentary democracy. They allow parliaments to examine the facts independently and autonomously where they consider this necessary in order to perform their constitutional task of representing citizens. I believe this to be urgently necessary, particularly in the situation which the European Union finds itself at present. One final thought to close: I agree with those Members who have said that minority conclusions are urgently needed."@en1
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