Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-10-27-Speech-3-018"
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"Mr President, my thanks to Mr Nicolaï for his presentation. In my opinion, he has identified three very important issues on behalf of the Council; the first being the Lisbon agenda. I agree with all of those who say it is time that all the fine words are translated into real action. It is time that our European economy really establishes a lead. In my opinion, it is a good thing that there has actually been a certain change of model. I am not referring to those grand plans some people have for a ‘Super-Commissioner’ or something similar, and the change is not only from above, but more oriented towards the countries themselves: where can good examples be found; how can we support them? I am talking about a bottom-up approach, in which I should like to call for special attention to the regional dimension, to improving compatibility between a European policy and an effective national policy, including by promoting the most technologically advanced regions. We must lend support to these success factors, but one aspect of this is the need for better determination of whether national parliaments are really keeping their side of the bargain. Perhaps His Excellency could elaborate on this.
The second issue is terrorism. Many fine words have been said about this; but how is it possible, Mr President, that we were saying here so soon after the tragic attack in your native Spain that the security services really must now enhance their cooperation – indeed, that is what we had said on 11 September 2001 – that that energy now seems to be ebbing away again, and that it is again considered less important? How can we really ensure cooperation on combating terrorism now, before any more harm is done?
The third issue is Tampere. This issue is crucial if we hope to uphold the credibility of a social Union. We will need to act boldly on this. It is no longer acceptable to have divergent policies that give people traffickers the opportunity to smuggle hundreds of thousands of people per annum like cattle across the internal borders of our Union. For this reason, I agree wholeheartedly with the Council about using qualified majority voting and codecision. We must stay firmly on this path, because it is time that Europe really solves the problem of these people. My message to those perhaps hoping to defeat the Commission this afternoon is therefore: bear in mind that there will be confusion amongst many people out there, because they cannot understand why the EU is shooting itself in the foot whilst there is so much to be done."@en1
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