Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-11-20-Speech-2-701-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-11-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Activities of the Committee on Petitions (2011) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20121120.36.2-701-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-11-20-Speech-2-702-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Philippe Boulland2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; DEVE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; EMPL (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; PETI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2011-10-26--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2011-02-11--2014-06-30)3 member; EPP (2010-12-15--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (2010-12-15--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Committee on Petitions this year acquired the right to be automatically included in hearings on European Citizens’ Initiatives. In my view, it is the main theme of 2011 for this committee. Citizens know which committee to go to if their rights are not respected, but now it also applies if they have suggestions for improving European legislation. I would like the Committee on Petitions to be considered increasingly as the preferred interlocutor of citizens in the European Parliament. This problem of consideration is also found in the results of position-taking of the Committee on Petitions. Too often, we are contacted by citizens who are facing legal imbroglios on which we would like to take a position. However, when the problems are European, the solutions should be European; we remain powerless, as subsidiarity does not always go with European solutions, and this is because of lack of national will. I will take the difficult example of trans-national divorces: the problems are both national and European when custody or visiting rights go beyond national borders, in the case in question German borders. In spite of the obvious difficulties that many parents have in seeing their children born of a bi-national union, in Parliament we are still powerless to act. My suggestion that all European citizens have the right to a national ombudsman – especially for those petitions originating from Germany, which sends a vast number – modelled on the defender of rights in France, has not been followed up. Nevertheless, in the case of trans-national divorces, this remains a way of reconciling a European problem by means of a national solution. In many cases, European law appears to be powerless to meet citizens’ expectations. The European year of the … 2013 should deal with citizen’s grievances, the … of divorce but we need means to act to be …"@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The President cut off the speaker)"1
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