Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-01-18-Speech-2-311"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-01-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Response to Second Report of Committee of Independent Experts2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000118.10.2-311"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-01-18-Speech-2-3122
lpv:speaker	lp:Paulo Casaca2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partido Socialista (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; CONT (1999-07-22--2001-12-11)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ever since Plato’s ‘Republic’, the Western world has regularly been tempted to replace government by the people with government by experts. Our Parliament first asked experts to help it evaluate the performance of the European Commission and they took advantage of this invitation to determine, themselves, what its future should be. In this second report, the experts have gone a step further and criticised some of the political groups in Parliament, which may have hesitated to remove the European Commission from office, since they shared the political affiliations of some of its members. The experts think that this problem will be resolved by banning the Commissioners from belonging to political groups. According to the experts, Parliament should no longer have the power to supervise the European Commission. This task should be taken over by a committee which will guarantee high standards in public life, and this should be a standing committee, not elected, presumably made up of another group of experts. In this, their second report, the experts tell us that Italy is financed by the Cohesion Fund, that the ERDF and the Social Fund represent two-thirds of the Structural Funds and that the principles of additionality and complementarity in the Structural Funds come to the same thing. They tell us that the farming lobby is forcing us to finance rural development through the EAGGF-Guarantee and that the principle of partnership only applies to the Commission and to the Member States. This lesson in wisdom is 100% ideology and 0% knowledge. This will not help us to reform the European institutions whilst fully respecting democratic institutions. The van Hulten report started out as a brilliant one and I would like to pay deep and sincere tribute here to what Mr van Hulten achieved. Unfortunately, it was then changed, and changed for the worse, which turned it into a document which in fact, proposes something that we cannot accept."@en1

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