Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-03-29-Speech-4-097-000"
Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
---|---|
rdf:type | |
dcterms:Date | |
dcterms:Is Part Of | |
dcterms:Language | |
lpv:document identification number |
"en.20120329.5.4-097-000"2
|
lpv:hasSubsequent | |
lpv:speaker | |
lpv:spokenAs | |
lpv:translated text |
"Mr President, I would like to thank Ms Vălean and simply say that all the favourable comments that I wanted to make have already been made. I will therefore focus on Ms Gurmai’s criticism.
If we in the Committee on Petitions do indeed want to be the main committee involved in the Citizens’ Initiative, then it is for the sake of the citizens and in order to give citizens the opportunity to find out how to use the Citizens’ Initiative. It is all well and good to have such a nonsensical system that we believe we can find our way around ourselves, but the citizens are not able to do that. It is therefore a vital help to them that we have an all-round service-minded approach, and we therefore propose that the very committee in Parliament that is there for the citizens, in other words, the Committee on Petitions, should be the body that takes care of the uniform handling of the Citizens’ Initiative. In this way, we will know when the consultations can be held and we can ensure that the Commission and, of course, the relevant political committees are involved right from the start.
The entire processing of the Citizens’ Initiative must obviously be done in a serious way and it must not be something that citizens will perceive as yet another way for us to deceive them in some way in order to make them believe that ours is a good system – but they are nevertheless unable to use it. I would therefore like to express my gratitude for the inclusion of this proposal. I hope that we will have Parliament’s support on this matter."@en1
|
lpv:videoURI |
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples