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Med et stort flertal på 515 mod 88 - medens 63 undlod at stemme - besluttede det nye udvidede Europa-Parlament - efter udvidelsen den 1. maj 2004 - at stemme "nej" til et forslag til mistillidsvotum til EU-Kommissionen på grund af "Eurostat-skandalen".
He also called for a reference to Christianity in the text: the Christian heritage was the basis of great works of art of Europe's past and the labours of love and faith visible in its cathedrals, including Strasbourg's cathedral.
Baggrunden for forslaget til mistillidsvotum var, at Kommissionen ikke har placeret et ansvar for "Eurostat-skandalen" .
He said yes to European inclusion, but no to secularism.
Det var Bent Hindrup Andersen, Freddy Blak, Jens-Peter Bonde, Mogens Camre, Pernille Frahm, Ole Krarup og Ulla Sandbæk.
He also called for Europe to speak with one voice and for the Member States to work together on an equal footing.
Flypassageroplysninger til USA:Nej til hastebehandling
MEPs refuse urgency procedure on passenger data transfer
Beslutningen om at sende aftalen til EU-Domstolen blev vedtaget med 276 stemmer mod 260 - medens 13 MEP'er undlod at stemme.
The vote on the procedure was 301 in favour to 343 against with 18 abstentions.
Tirsdag den 4. maj 2004 - dvs. efter udvidelsen, som betyder at de 10 nye medlemslandes 162 observatører er blevet rigtige, fuldgyldige MEP'er! - besluttede Europa-Parlamentet at afvise en anmodning fra EU's Ministerråd om at hastebehandle aftalen om overførsel af flypassagerdata til USA.
During the April session, MEPs voted to ask the Court of Justice to rule on the legality of the agreement and decided to wait for the Court's decision before adopting an opinion on the substance of the agreement.
Det var første gang det udvidede EP stemte! 343 MEP'er stemte imod hastebehandling, 301 MEP'er stemte for - medens 63 MEP'er undlod at stemme.
Today's vote effectively confirms that position.
Han håbede, at det ville blive en interessant og informativ oplevelse for kronprinsessen.
88 members supported the motion, but 515 voted against, with 63 abstentions, so the motion was rejected.
Debat og Beslutninger : 05-05-2004
Daily Notebook : 05-05-2004
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Pat Cox' sidste tale i EP
Pat Cox's final speech to Parliament as President
Ireren Pat COX , der har været formand for EP de sidste 2 1/2 år, understregede, at EP i denne periode har bevist sit værd som parlament.
Pat COX addressed Parliament for the last time as President and revealed that he would not be standing in June's European Elections:
Herunder fremhævede Cox, at "et Europa-Parlament, der får ansvar, handler ansvarligt".
"It is a moment to reflect and to look back on the mandate which is ending after our vote today.
Cox sagde, at EP har vist sig at være en moden og pålidelig rådgivningspartner for Rådet og Kommissionen - et parlament, der har udvist politisk fornemmelse og som derfor har udgjort en politisk forskel.
Thanks to the determined leadership of the Committees and their Chairmen, you can be proud of a solid record of legislative achievement.
EP's resultater Cox fremhævede, at EP - gennem den fælles beslutningsprocedure - har bidraget til vedtagelsen af 403 lovgivningsmæssige beslutninger, hvilket er 250 % flere end i den foregående valgperiode, og herunder påpegede Cox, at langt de fleste er vedtaget under 1. eller 2. behandling, hvorved man har undgået forligsproceduren.
You have managed, I believe, an important gearshift, and have been an extremely hard-working Parliament throughout the mandate.
Samtidig sagde Cox, at EP's lovgivningsmæssige beføjelse kun er en blandt flere, herunder budgetbeføjelsen.
Your work has demonstrated that a European Parliament given responsibility, acts with responsibility.
Cox henviste til, at EP har været tilbageholdende i forbindelse med udgifterne, og mere tilbageholdende end Rådet - kort sagt har EP været en forsigtig budgetmyndighed.
The extent of our legislative engagement; our engagement across the European institutions - which has contributed to a climate of trust and provided legitimacy, efficiency and confidence; the sheer scale of our high 'exit velocity' - involving the adoption of over eighty reports at our last session; all these bear testament to the general up-scaling of Parliament's work in the last period.
Udvidelsen: Førsteprioritet Udvidelsen har været førsteprioriteten under formandskabet, og Cox roste EP's bidrag til processen.
Only two proposals were not adopted - the Takeover directive in 2001 and the Port services directive in 2003.
Cox betegnede året 2003 som "parlamenters og parlamentarismens år", idet EP bl.a. inviterede de nye medlemslandes observatører til at deltage i Europa-Parlamentets daglige arbejde.
The legislative legacy of this Parliament, from 1999 to 2004, is one which will improve the quality of life of our peoples, and lay down the conditions for improved prosperity."
Han udtrykte endvidere håb om, at Cypern vil nå til forsoning, så "den sidste delte hovedstad i Europa kan blive genforenet".
Parliament, he said, had been flexible and skilful in its use of the legislative instrument.
EP: Uomgængeligt led mellem institutioner og borgere I forbindelse med nærheden til borgerne fremhævede Cox, at der er behov for at forbedre kommunikationen med andre institutioner, herunder Rådet, Kommissionen og de nationale parlamenter.
One hundred and fifteen procedures (28 % of the total) were adopted in first reading, while half of the total were agreed and concluded at second reading, in 'pre-conciliation' processes, leaving only one fifth for conciliation proper.
Cox sagde, at en forbedret kommunikation er afgørende for at "vi kan sælge vores historie".
He continued: "In plainer language, we did not push parliamentary prerogative to its limits, but used it with strategy and strong political sense.
Samtidig understregede Cox, at PR-strategier aldrig kan erstatte ægte politik, præget af både fornuft og passion, og at MEP'er er et uomgængeligt led mellem institutioner og borgere.
Throughout the mandate, we in the Parliament, perhaps alone of all the European legislative institutions, delivered 100% and proved our readiness to deliver on our legislative responsibility and to work quickly."
Cox understregede, at et parlament med 25 forskellige regelsæt for medlemmernes lønninger m.m., umuligt kan fungere i fremtiden.
He argued that Parliament had increasingly fulfilled its role as a focal point for the expression of concerns held by people on the ground.
Cox sagde derfor, at hans største håb er, at statutten kan vedtages tidligt i den nye valgperiode.
The debates on the Erika and Prestige disasters had led to remedial legislation.
Cox benyttede lejligheden til at kritisere, at der i øjeblikket foregår en kampagne imod medlemmerne, der bygger på tvivlsomme metoder og beviser, og hvis formål er at underminere medlemmernes troværdighed.
He said Parliament had been an efficient lawmaker, a prudent budget-maker, the EU's platform for executive accountability, and an effective tribune of the people.
Cox betegnede denne kampagne som "vanærende" og skadelig.
Presidential activity
EP og verden: Multilateral politik Med hensyn til EU's eksterne relationer, brugte Cox Irak-krigen som et eksempel på et tilbageslag for FN, EU og de transatlantiske forbindelser.
Pat Cox spoke of the headline goals he had set for himself on 6 February 2002: Parliament's contribution to Enlargement; enhancing communication with European citizens and the promotion of internal reform, particularly the Statute for members.
Han sagde, at denne krise viste, at manglen på politisk vilje udhuler den europæiske tanke, og udtrykte i denne forbindelse EP's ønske om at føre en multilateral politik - hvilket man markerede bl.a. ved at give FN's general sekretær, Kofi Annan Sakharov-prisen.
He recalled his busy agenda, including 90 meetings of the Conference of Presidents, covering 669 agenda items; 54 meetings of the Bureau, treating 934 agenda items; 450 other meetings in the European Parliament; 334 meetings with visiting personalities and politicians of note and 16 visits of Heads of State.
"Hold fast i Europa" Cox rundede sin tale af med at fremhæve, at EU har 50 års erfaring med at skabe europæisk politik og sagde herunder, at der stadig mangler en europæisering af politikken på flere områder.
He had represented Parliament at 12 meetings of the European Council, and made 203 visits to 33 states, including the European Union states and candidate states.
Han opfordrede salen til, at "holde fast i Europa".
There were also over 1,000 TV and media interviews in Brussels and Strasbourg and an equal number of press points and interviews on visits abroad.
Cox oplyste samtidig, at han ikke stiller op til Europa-Parlamentsvalget i næste måned, men fortsat vil tjene Europa og aldrig vil glemme de fantastiske 15 år, han har tilbragt i Parlamentet - først som medlem af og næstformand og formand for den liberale gruppe og sidste som formand for EP.
But, he continued, "what the Parliament really brought to enlargement, through the actions of the Foreign Affairs Committee and our rapporteurs, through the actions of the Political Groups, and through my own visits, was the animation of politics, the Europe of values, and a sense of communicating the excitement of the project to people.
Udelte roser til Cox Efter et stående, langt og taktfast bifald til Pat Cox, var det de politiske gruppelederes tur til at takke Cox for hans indsats som formand.
We moved the debate on, from the sterility of the acquis to the vitality of the moment - encouraging the necessary compromises, reaching the necessary agreement on the financial perspective.
Og der var tale om tak hele vejen rundt.
At the same time the prospect of membership induced an extraordinary transformation in the acceding states."
Således takkede Hans-Gert PÖTTERING (PPE-DE, D) Cox af sit "fulde hjerte" for at have forbundet passion og pragmatisme i sit virke.
"In Parliament," he said, "we emphasised the parliamentary dimension of the process.
Enrique BARÓN CRESPO (PSE, E) sagde til Cox: "vi stemte ikke oprindeligt for Dem som formand, men i dag klapper vi af Dem".
We held a gathering of parliamentarians in this chamber in November 2002, marking a special staging-post on our shared pathway.
Ligeledes var Graham WATSON (ELDR, UK) fuld af lovord, og roste særligt Cox for hans utrættelige lederskab og profil.
After the political year of enlargement that was 2002, 2003 was the 'year of parliaments and parliamentarianism'.
Daniel Marc COHN-BENDIT (Verts/ALE, F) sagde, at Cox havde været et godt eksempel for EP både som medlem og som formand.
We took the unprecedented step of inviting the parliaments of the new states to send observers, which helped to prepare us and our new colleagues for this week.
Han opfordrede dog indgående Cox til at foretage en sidste vigtig handling, nemlig at forhindre at aftalen om udveksling af personoplysninger mellem EU og USA vedtages uden EP's godkendelse.
Pat Cox expressed the hope that reconciliation can be found on the island of Cyprus, and that the last divided capital in Europe can be reunited.
Det danske medlem af JuniBevægelsen, Jens-Peter BONDE takkede Cox for et ualmindeligt godt samarbejde og roste ham især for at have skabt et godt kollegialt samarbejde.
Enlargement, he said, had brought with it a recognition of the need for a new rulebook for the Union, and the convening of a Convention on the Future of Europe to prepare it.
Romano Prodis sidste tale i EP før EP-valget:Beslutsomhed, mod og visioner!
The President argued that communications were an indispensable and growing requirement of parliamentary democracy, particularly for a continental-scale Parliament.
Onsdag den 5. maj 2004 holdt formanden for EU-Kommissionen Romano PRODI sin sidste tale i Europa-Parlamentet i Strasbourg inden EP-valget den 10.-13. juni 2004.
Having intensified its communications with the other European Institutions and with the national parliaments, the European Parliament had demonstrated itself to be a determined and reliable partner.
Prodi gjorde status over de sidste 5 år og fastslog, at der havde været et godt og konstruktivt samarbejde mellem Kommissionen og Europa-Parlamentet, selvom man ikke altid havde været enige.
The next Parliament would do well to invest yet more resources to communications, to selling its story, of which it should be proud.
Men debatten mellem Kommissionen og EP havde altid været åben, ærlig og konstruktiv.
"However," he warned, "there is no public relations or information-campaign substitute for real politics based on conviction, passion and reason.
Store opgaver!
We must bring vision and give leadership.
Nu går Kommissionen ind i en overgangsfase med de 10 nye kommissærer fra de 10 nye medlemslande.
We are the indispensable link in the unbroken chain of democratic accountability between our constituents, our regions, our countries and the European ideal."
Selvom der kommer en ny Kommission den 1. november 2004, så har denne Kommission stadig store opgaver:
It marked a departure from the European way of doing business.
Bidrage til vedtagelsen af forfatningstraktaten under EU-topmødet 17.-18 juni 2004,
It had shown that institutional or constitutional provisions risk becoming empty vessels, if they are not animated by political will and common public purpose.
sikre at udvidelsen bliver en succes .
It signalled, in a powerful and emotional message, our Parliament's commitment to the multilateral way of doing politics. "
Nu skal vi koncentrere os om udvidelsesforhandlingerne med Bulgarien og Rumænien , og Kommissionen har netop anbefalet, at man indleder udvidelsesforhandlinger med Kroatien .
"In strategic terms, we achieved the culmination of many years or work, deciding on a Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly in Naples on 2 December 2003, and constituting it in Athens on 22/23 March.
nye finansielle perspektiver 2007-2013, hvor man skal give EU de nødvendige finansielle ressourcer til at indfri de 3 hovedmål: 1) bæredygtig udvikling, 2) EU-borgerskabet og 3) Europas rolle i verden.
An arrangement whereby Members of the same parliament have 25 different legal and financial regimes is neither desirable nor tenable in the long term.
euroen , den fælles mønt,
The Parliament, as you know and as you have voted, needs reform."
nye kæmper i Asien - og især Kina - som tvinger os til at se globalt på tingene ,
Council's failure has not prevented the Bureau and other bodies of this House from examining further reforms on an incremental basis.
der tegner sig en europæisk offentlighed , hvilket man så i forbindelse med konflikten i Irak.
Pat Cox said that we had an experience, more or less, of fifty years of European policy making.
"Euroskepticisme" Alt i alt er historien kommet op i et højere gear .
In that time, policy in very many aspects of day-to-day life in our Members States has been Europeanised.
Hvor vi tidligere har haft plads og råd til "euroskepticisme" , vil "euroskepticisme" nu føre os til et sikkert nederlag.
European public policy and regulation is deeply embedded in the national and political decision-making environment.
Det EU har behov for nu er beslutsomhed, mod og visioner, sluttede Romano Prodi.
For all of that, although we have Europeanised policy, we are still searching for a way to 'Europeanise' politics.
Under den såkaldte "catch the eye" debat, der er en åben debat, der foregår efter princippet om at alle kan tale, under forudsætning af at de opnår øjenkontakt med formanden, blev der stillet forskellige spørgsmål til Kommissionen.
He said he had therefore tried, particularly in this last year, to deliver the message that there is such a richness of European issues and that these should be exploited, from the different political platforms, for the European elections: "Let these next elections be truly European."
Hertil svarede Kommissionens formand, italieneren Romani PRODI , at det ikke er muligt at se ind i fremtiden, men han understregede at man i første omgang må afslutte tiltrædelsesforhandlingerne med Bulgarien og Rumænien, derefter Kroatien og endelig tage stilling til om EU vil indlede optagelsesforhandlinger med Tyrkiet.
He offered particular thanks to the Group leaders for their collaboration.
Nelly MAES (Verts/ALE, B) fra EP's udviklingsudvalg ville gerne vide hvordan Kommissionen vil gennemføre den "nultolerance politik" over for svindel, den bebudede da Prodi indtrådte som formand.
"I realise," he said, "more fully than I did at the outset, that you cannot please all of the people all of the time.
Maes efterlyste endvidere en reel ligestillingspolitik, da hun mente at hele EU-systemets top stadig er alt for mandsdomineret.
I have always sought to serve this House without fear or favour, without malice or prejudice, to serve in the interest of the whole House and not any of its component parts.
Prodi svarede, at det er første gang i EU-institutionernes historie at Kommissionen gennemfører en gennemgribende reformproces, hvilket skal underbygge "nultolerance politikken" over for svindel.
I very much believe that I have worked according to the principle set out by Edmund Burke to his constituents in 1774: 'Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices [his judgement] to your opinion'.
Europa-Parlamentet vedtog onsdag den 5. maj 2004 en beslutning, hvori man godkender EU-Kommissionen i dens nye sammensætning for den resterende del af mandatet frem til den 31. oktober 2004.
Finally, on a personal note, he said, "serving as a Member of the European Parliament for fifteen years, as a Vice-President and President of the ELDR for more than seven years, as President of the House since January 2002, has been the great experience of my working life.
EP anerkender, at Prodi-Kommissionen fortsat må udføre sine pligter i overensstemmelse med dens lovgivnings- og arbejdsprogram for 2004 og med EP's beslutning om dette emne, indtil dens mandatperiode udløber.
With what I can assure you were very mixed emotions, I have informed my supporters in my Munster constituency, this morning, that I do not intend to stand in the forthcoming election.
EP forventer dog, at den ikke i tiden efter EP-valget den 10.-13. juni 2004 tager nye initiativer af større politisk betydning til behandling efter udløbet af dens mandat.
I want to thank the people of Munster for their consistent support over the years and I thank my own supporters and my family."
Beslutningen om at godkende Kommissionen blev vedtaget med 531 stemmer mod 18 - medens 39 undlod at stemme.
He concluded: "Although no business in politics is ever finished, I have made a contribution and I know others are there to take up the challenge.
Dalia GRYBAUSKAITE , Litauen,
Parliament votes to approve enlarged European Commission
Danuta HÜBNER , Polen,
Proposal for a decision - Enlarged European Commission
Markos KYPRIANOU , Cypern og
They each took part in hearings before the Parliament's Conference of Committee Presidents, and details of these hearings can be found here :
I beslutningen henviser man til, at Europa-Parlamentet skal godkende den nye Kommission, inden den indleder sit arbejde den 1. november 2004, og at Europa-Parlamentets udvalg til den tid vil foretage omfattende og afgørende høringer af de nye kandidater til Kommissionen.
These two new members of the Commission were approved following hearings by the relevant parliamentary committees (Economic and Monetary Affairs and Regional Policy respectively).
EU's Revisionsret:8 nye medlemmer
Reports on these hearings can be found here :
Ordfører: Diemut THEATO (PPE-DE, D)
Diemut THEATO (EPP-ED, D)
Procedure: Den ikke-lovgivningsmæssige procedure
All the nominees took part in hearings before Parliament's Budgetary Control Committee, details of which can be found here :
EP vedtog onsdag den 5. maj 2004 en betænkning af den tyske CDU'er Diemut THEATO , hvori man godkender udnævnelsen af nye medlemmer af EU's Revisionsret efter udvidelsen den 1. maj 2004.
Jan KINΊT (Czech Republic) Kersti KALJULAID (Estonia) Constantinos KARMIOS (Cyprus) Igors LUDBORZS (Latvia) Irena PETRUŠKEVIČIENĖ (Lithuania) Gejza Zsolt HALÁSZ (Hungary) Josef BONNICI (Malta) Jacek UCZKIEWICZ (Poland) Vojko A. ANTONČIČ (Slovenia) Július MOLNÁR (Slovakia)
Inden afstemningen oplyste ordføreren Diemut Theato, at budgetkontroludvalget havde godkendt disse 8 kandidater, medens 2 andre kandidater ikke havde fået flertal i budgetkontroludvalget.
The Budgetary Control Committee had also recommended a negative opinion on the nomination of Constantinos KARMIOS .
Det drejer sig om kandidaten fra Cypern Constantinos KARMIOS - som derefter havde trukket sig - og kandidaten fra Slovakiet Julius MOLNAR .
His nomination was withdrawn before the vote in plenary.
EP stemte om Julius Molnars kandidatur, og med 429 stemmer mod 74 - medens 54 undlod at stemme - besluttede EP at forkaste hans kandidatur.
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162 observatører bliver MEP'er:Bekræftelse af mandaterne
Verification of the credentials of the new MEPs
Europa-Parlamentet besluttede at godkende de 162 nye medlemmers mandater.
President Pat COX announced that the Legal Affairs Committee had verified the credentials of 161 new MEPs from the ten new Member States.
For yderligere oplysninger om de nye medlemmer kan følgende link benyttes:
Details of all the Members of the enlarged European Parliament can be found here :
Debat og Beslutninger : 20-07-2004
Daily Notebook : 20-07-2004
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Ny EP-formand:Josep Borrell
Opening of the Session
Josep Borrell blev valgt i første valgrunde, idet han fik 388 stemmer af de 647 afgivne stemmer .
The opening session of the 6th directly elected European Parliament began under the chairmanship of the oldest member, Giovanni BERLINGUER (PES, IT).
Dermed havde han opnået flere stemmer end de krævede 324 stemmer, som udgjorde det absolutte flertal af de afgivne 647 stemmer.
He welcomed the newly elected MEPs and drew attention to the fact that this was the first meeting of a fully elected Parliament of an reunited Europe based on democracy and the rule of law, without the dominance of one state or another.
Den polske liberale Bronislaw GEREMEK fik 208 stemmer, medens den franske GUE'er Francis WURTZ fik 51 stemmer.
Saluting the arrival in particular of members from the 10 new Member States, Mr Berlinguer noted that as the borders of Europe had expanded, so the projects undertaken had developed from the Coal and Steel Community to the Common Market and the single currency.
Kompromiser og legitimitet I sin takketale sagde Josep Borrell, at han som ny formand for Europa-Parlamentet var indstillet på at indgå kompromiser .
The EU was now being strengthened by the Lisbon process and the planned Constitution.
Han havde stor respekt for dem, der ikke havde stemt på ham, og han ønskede, at man kunne samarbejde.
Europe, he said, was based on work, solidarity and social justice.
Borrell pegede på, at det var et stort flertal, der havde støttet ham, hvilket betød, at EP ville forblive en stabil institution, og at han havde legitimitet som formand.
It was a welcoming Europe, open to the world, feeling the suffering of others and understanding the aspirations of different countries round the world.
EP: Mere politisk synlig!
EP Rules of Procedure
Cox havde været meget aktiv og gjort EP mere politisk synlig - bl.a. i forbindelse med Konventets arbejde.
Mr BERLINGUER announced that seven political groups had been created under the rules of procedure.
Borrell sendte en særlig hilsen til MEP'erne fra de 10 nye medlemslande, og han håbede snart at se MEP'er fra Bulgarien og Rumænien.
These were the European People's Party and European Democrats (EPP-ED), the Group of Socialists in the European Parliament (PES), the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), the Greens and European Free Alliance group (Greens/EFA), the Confederal Group of the European United Left and Nordic Green Left (EUL/NGL), the Independence and Democracy group (IND/DEM) and the Union for Europe of the Nations group (UEN).