Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-11-28-Speech-3-043"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-11-28"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Future of the European Union2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011128.4.3-043"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-11-28-Speech-3-0442
lpv:speaker	lp:Vitaliano Gemelli2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees and delegations for relations with Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 chair; PETI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Cristiani democratici uniti (1999-07-20--2003-01-30)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-07)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, the debate on the future of Europe must be conducted in a very responsible manner if it is not to end in failure, as happened with the intergovernmental method at Nice. We must recognise the legitimacy of the European citizenship of the citizens of the Member States, for this, too, will help to bring the European institutions closer to the citizens once again. Today, we have to take into account the way the interinstitutional organisations’ systems have developed, and the more sophisticated this development becomes the more it widens the gap between the citizens and the institutions. When the institutions work properly, problems do not arise, but when they do not work properly – and the number of petitions we receive is evidence of the considerable gap between the institutions and the citizens – the citizens are wronged by the institutions. Our positive response must be to strengthen the institutions which safeguard the rights of the Union’s citizens. The Committee on Petitions has been forced to issue an extremely critical opinion on the Commission’s proposals on good governance, for it has found no reference in them either to the European Ombudsman or to the Committee on Petitions’ role as the institutional body which safeguards the rights of the citizens, who indeed petition it to uphold their rights. The proposals for good governance do not appear to contain any significant element that might succeed in bringing the citizens closer to Europe. This endeavour could be said to be effective in theory but, in actual fact, to have no genuine impact. Lastly, we hope that it will be possible to make the obscure role of the Council clearer, at least by advertising the institution’s sittings when it is legislating, to avoid the impression of it being a huge black hole. I recommend the points made in these reports to the other European institutions, for I am sure that Parliament is the only body with democratic legitimacy."@en1

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