Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-03-13-Speech-3-257"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-03-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Question Time (Council)2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020313.11.3-257"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-03-13-Speech-3-2582
lpv:speaker	lp:Camilo Nogueira Román2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and MERCOSUR (2002-02-07--2002-10-08)3 substitute; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Bloque Nacionalista Galego (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, the President of the Government of the Spanish State refuses, in a way which is arbitrary and quite contrary to the winds of history, to allow the Union’s constituent nationalities and regions to play a role in the Union, not least in the Council of Ministers, and is trying to ignore the practices already in place in Germany, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Austria. He is trying to base his approach on an absolutist concept of sovereignty, contrary to that of shared sovereignty which is, in fact, a fundamental principle of the European Union. In its folly – as illustrated by the Minister of the Presidency Mr Lucas, a minister who is very close to the President of the Spanish Government – the Spanish Government is both trying to confine the internal constitutional bodies to a consultative role in the politically useless Committee of the Regions, and also, ignoring the reality of the Union, wants to turn this body into senate, even if this means going against proposals such as the one put forward by the German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, who reserves this role of senate for the Council itself. They could not be making a worse decision. This is why I wish to ask the President-in-Office of the Council: why is the Government of the Spanish State insisting on maintaining such an anachronistic concept of sovereignty in the Union?"@en1

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