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At enhver tanke og idé om medlemslande med forskellige hastigheder, som visse kredse åbent eller hemmeligt støtter, tilintetgøres.
There are three words which - and I was doing my best to listen very carefully -I missed from your recent speech: veto, unanimity and majority.
Dette vil nemlig nedbryde idéen om Den Europæiske Union og den europæiske integration, som hr. Santer stiler imod.
Prime Minister, at a time when the Community has ground to a halt, hampered by the weight of its procedures, your silence on these matters is deafening, and we regard this as an extremely bad omen for the future.
Vi bør vise ham vores tillid og vores udelte støtte.
In casting our vote, then, we will be much less seeking to criticize you than telling Parliament and the European Council that they must persuade Mr Major to reconsider his vote.
Vi bør alle undgå - og det gælder måske især vore kolleger fra det engelske Labour-parti - utopiets fristelser (undertiden kan læsning af Thomas Moore have en farlig virkning).
We must all - and perhaps this applies to our colleagues from the British Labour Party more than to anybody else - avoid the temptations of Utopia (reading Thomas More can sometimes be harmful).
Hr. formand, Den Europæiske Union er dannet af 12 stater, som snart vil blive udvidet til seksten.
Mr President, the European Union is composed of 12 states which are soon to be 16.
Og selv om der er behov for at udrydde dårlige vaner -såsom letsindig omgang med vetoretten -ja så kan ingen benægte rimeligheden af forpligtelserne. Det er dem, der har gjort, at hr. Santer står her nu, og vi vil respektere dette ved at stemme for.
Even though selfish acts - such as the imprudent exercise of the veto - must of course be rejected, nobody can deny the legitimacy of compromises.
Colajanni (PSE). - (IT) Hr. formand, vi henleder opmærksomheden på tillidskrisen hos unionsborgerne som følge af Unionens manglende effektivitet.
Rocard (PSE). - (FR) Mr President, Prime Minister, our twelve nations are gradually ageing.
Til denne mistillid har der i længere tid føjet sig en politisk afvigelse fra de regeringers side, der ser det som deres opgave at mindske den kvote politisk union, der indførtes i Maastricht.
Their birth rate, their share in international trade and their influence on world affairs, whether in promoting peace or development, are all on a downward trend. And we know that none of our nations can escape this trend by its own power.
Vi kan ikke acceptere denne afvigelse, vi accepterer ikke, at man ganske langsomt skruer udviklingen tilbage i retning af et Europa, der kun er et marked, med mindre politisk union og mere nationalisme.
I have known Jacques Santer over ten years of close cooperation at meetings of Heads of Government.
Dette er, hvad Europa-Parlamentet har krævet i årevis!
He has an unusual talent for achieving results.
Den europæiske opbygning er vores svar på denne udfordring, en betingelse for vores fremtid og nøglen til vore børns fremtidige skæbne. Som De selv har sagt, drejer det sig om at bortmane fortidens dæmoner.
European integration is our response to this challenge, the condition for our future and the key to our children's destiny.
Drøftelsen i dag drejer sig om udsigterne for Den Europæiske Union og bestemt ikke om de foreslåede personers værdighed.
But what do we need most in our work today? We need things to start happening.
Nu stiller de i forbindelse med valget af en ny kommissionsformand Parlamentet over for en fremgangsmåde, som vi ikke kan acceptere, fordi den er udemokratisk.
There would be no better way of doing that than to give the new Commission President our greatest possible support.
Europa har derfor brag for at »komme en tiger i tanken«, for at brage et reklameudtryk, der er effektivt.
Europe therefore needs to put a tiger in its tank, if I may use a fitting metaphor from advertising.
Dette afhænger delvis af formanden for Kommissionen.
If this is to be done, it depends partly on the President of the Commission.
For denne dels vedkommende, hr. statsminister, har Deres faste europæiske overbevisninger og Deres velkendte evner til integritet, kompetence og høflighed givet Dem alle chancer foran dette Parlament.
In making your contribution, Prime Minister, the strength of your European convictions, your high reputation for integrity, competence and courtesy give you every chance before this Parliament.
Men den nødvendige energi til at styrke den europæiske opbygningsproces afhænger ikke kun af formanden for Kommissionen og af Kommissionen selv.
But finding the energy to strengthen the process of European integration will not depend solely on the President of the Commission or even on the Commission as a whole.
Denne energi afhænger også af den institutionelle ligevægt og af situationen. Der var mange iblandt os, hr. statsminister,
It also depends on the institutional balance and on the course of events.
Rocard var skadelige for Europa og kun gavnlige for de inteme partipolitiske bestræbelser gjort af én enkelt premierminister, der til trods for, at han er fortaler for subsidiaritetsprincippet, ikke tøvede med at fornægte ånden i dette princip og udnytte topmødet i Unionen til småligt at forfølge sine egne inteme mål.
Katiforis principle of subsidiarity, did not hesitate to stand that principle on its head and exploit the Summit for petty internal ends.
Det er beklageligt, at bestemmelsen om enstemmighed har forhindret samtlige øvrige kolleger i at se bort fra disse utilladelige og smålige reaktioner fra hans side.
enough time to show us how you can help to meet these challenges and you deserve to enjoy our trust until the decisive moment of the investiture at the end of the year.
Alt dette har under alle omstændigheder skadet billedet af Europa i vore folks øjne.
Europe requires from this Parliament exactly the same thing that it requires from you: responsibility and credibility.
Majors veto, som tydeligvis ikke skyldes nogen vital interesse fra Storbritanniens side, har forværret enstemmighedssituationen på et tidspunkt, hvor det er nødvendigt at sætte sig ud over denne, og det har svækket Kommissionen alvorligt over for Rådet og vist en dyb forhånelse af den rolle, som Parlamentet trods alt har fået anerkendt gennem Maastrichttraktaten.
It is also regrettable that Parliament's leaders at that time did not immediately bring up during the Corfu Summit the issue of the infringement of the Maastricht Treaty regarding Parliament's right to take part in deliberations on the selection of the President.
Alt dette er alvorligt og skaber en situation, hvor Deres talenter alene ikke er tilstrækkelige til at komme vore institutioner til hjælp.
All this definitely marred the image of Europe in the eyes of the public.
På denne baggrund, hr. statsminister, havde De ikke ret i at råde os til ikke at fordreje forhandlingen.
Dankert (PSE). - (NL) Jacques Delors has made the Commission Presidency the central element in the fight to maintain and consolidate a communautaire Europe.
Major har indledt det, som De netop har kaldt en interinstitutionel dyst af største alvor.
It is extremely difficult to find someone who can follow in his footsteps in this respect.
Vi kan naturligvis forstå, at De udviser et forbehold over for Det Europæiske Råd og dets fremgangsmåder. Dette kan vi forstå.
Yet thanks to the business concerning the appointment of the next President, the European Councils of Corfu and Brussels have not only harmed the image of the European Council; they have also discredited the Commission Presidency.
Men så havde det i det mindste været nødvendigt at tale om fremtiden.
It amounts to harming the job and harming the candidate.
Hr. statsminister, der er tre ord - jeg mener, at jeg lyttede godt efter, jeg udviste meget stor opmærksomhed - tre ord, som jeg ikke har høit i Deres tale for kort tid siden, nemlig ordet veto, ordet enstemmighed og ordet flerstemmighed.
This means that for a Member of a Parliament which is very much dependent for its effective parliamentary existence on good cooperation with a high-profile Commission it is impossible to accept the results of Corfu and Brussels. I am sincerely sorry for Jacques Santer's sake.
Den bedste måde at rette op på disse uregelmæssigheder og genskabe billedet af Europa i folks bevidsthed på er dog ikke at fremprovokere endnu en institutionel krise.
The best way of righting these wrongs and repairing the damage to the public's image of Europe, however, is not to provoke yet another institutional crisis.
En yderligere institutionel krise vil kun tjene til at støtte anti-europæeme og dem, der skabte krisen omkring valget af formanden.
Another institutional crisis would play into the hands of the antiEuropeans and those who created the crisis over the election of the President.
Det vil være meget let for disse kredse at lægge ansvaret for Europas manglende effektivitet over på vore skuldre og påstå, at Den Europæiske Union er ude af stand til at fungere.
It would be easy in those circles to shift the burden of responsibility for the malfunctioning of Europe onto our shoulders, and for them to claim that the European Union is not workable.
Genlyden af en ny institutionel krise, denne gang på Parlamentets initiativ, i vore folks offentlige opinion kan ikke være andet end ødelæggende.
The effects of another institutional crisis - this time caused by Parliament - on public opinion would be nothing less than catastrophic.
Europa lider under et betragteligt antal uløste kriser såsom arbejdsløsheden og den jugoslaviske tragedie, så vi bør ikke tilføje endnu en.
Europe is suffering enough unresolved crises - unemployment and the Yugoslav tragedy -without adding yet another one.
Hr. statsminister, når Europa står i stampe og lammes af sine egne procedurer, er Deres tavshed vedrørende disse emner af største betydning, og vi betragter den som en yderst alvorlig trussel mod fremtiden.
A candidate now has to be found as soon as possible: a candidate who can bring Europe closer to the people, a candidate who can offer a counter balance to the nation alistic tendencies which Council President Kinkel and Mr Santer have both deplored.
Under disse omstændigheder har vores stemme ikke i så høj grad betydning af en mistillidserklæring til Dem, som af et pålæg fra Parlamentet til Det Europæiske Råd om at få Major til at tage sit veto tilbage.
A candidate, finally, who must be able to put a stop to the gradual process of undermining the Commission's responsibilities by the Council Presidency.
Der var visioner, men der var også en realistisk definition af vore arbejdsopgaver.
I would, however, like to call on the European Council to extend the field of candidates beyond 'one of us'.
Metoden med at kræve de demokratiske principper over holdt og bekæmpe misbruget af enstemmighedsprincippet, er ikke på nuværende tidspunkt at give en negativ stemme, som vil fremkalde en ny lammelse af procedurerne, men derimod at anvende proceduren for regerings konferencen i 1996 positivt i dette øjemed.
The way for us to uphold the principles of democracy and combat the abuse of the unanimity principle is not to cast our votes against now, which would bring everything grinding to a half again, but to make constructive use of the intergovernmental conference of 1996.
I Den Socialistiske Gruppe har vi også noteret os de positive punkter i den foreslåede formands synspunkter om Europas institutionelle integration, om de regionale forskelle, Europas sociale og miljømæssige karakter, behovet for politisk samhørighed, for uddybelse, og af alle disse grande vil de græske socialister stemme ja til hr. Santers kandidatur.
The Socialist Group noted the positive points in the proposed President's views on the institutions of Europe, regional disparities, the social and environmental nature of Europe, the need for political cohesion, for the deepening of Europe, and for all those reasons, the Greek socialists will vote in favour of Mr Santer.
Dette er naturligvis en taktisk stemme, fordi det, der er gået forud, forhindrer os i at give en begejstret stemme.
We are, of course being pragmatic here; we would have liked to have cast our votes with enthusiasm, but this was prevented by previous events.
Og denne stemme tjener naturligvis ikke til at foregribe vores synspunkter, når hr. Santer vil præsentere den nye Kommissionen og sit program.
And the way we vote today has no bearing on our position when Mr Santer presents the new Commission and its programme.
Jeg har kendt Jacques Santer gennem ti års tæt samarbejde på regeringschefsmøderne. Jeg kan bevidne, at en mere overbevist europæer findes ikke.
Ford (PSE). - Mr President, I have just been told that John Kerr, the representative of the British Government, has been refused admission to the Public Gallery, in fact he was pinned against the wall by our parliamentary staff to prevent him going in.
Men Jacques Santer har en yderligere kvalifikation, som ikke alle politikere kan prale af. Han har et usædvanligt talent for det resultatsøgende.
I am not raising a complaint against our staff but in view of the fact that it was Mr Major who was the architect of this fiasco, can urgent arrangements be made to allow his representative to watch our vote at 12.30?
Marinho (PSE). - (PT) Hr. formand, valget af en efterfølger for hr. Delors som formand for Kommissionen kræver en intellektuel indsats af dem, der vælger, og af den, der vælges, for at sætte sig ud over subjektive interesser i forbindelse med nationalitet, inteme politiske fordele, politisk førerskab og kun se på, om valget er til fælles bedste, til Europas bedste.
Marinho (PSE). - (PT) Mr President, the process of replacing President Delors requires that those who choose and the one who is chosen make the mental effort to refrain from subjective opinions based on nationality, internal political advantages or considerations of political leadership, but sacrifice everything in the interests of finding out whether the choice made is in the common interest, that is to say in Europe's interest.
Men hvad har vi mest brag for i vores arbejde nu?
Unfortunately, the Council did not follow these rales in its choice.
Vi har brag for, at tingene bliver til noget. Nu har tolv regeringer samlet sig.
The national, party-political and personal interests of Mr John Major clouded the issue and opened the way to an institutional crisis.
Sådan begyndte det ikke, men de tolv regeringer indstiller nu Jacques Santer.
You, Mr Santer, are in danger of becoming the second victim of the short sightedness and national egotism of a selection process which the British Prime Minister sabotaged at the outset.
Lad os vise samme beslutsomhed. Nu skal vi i gang med arbejdet.
Dury (PSE). - (FR) Mr President, the Council has taken on a heavy responsibility towards Mr Santer.
Det kan vi ikke komme på nogen bedre måde end ved at give den nye formand for Kommissionen vor størst tænkelige tilslutning.
He began his speech just now by saying that he had not wished to be nominated.
Desværre har Det Europæiske Råd ikke fulgt disse regler, da det traf sit valg.
Speaking to the meeting of the Socialist Group he described the nomination as a gift from his friend Dr Kohl.
John Majors nationale, politiske, partipolitiske og personlige interesser forplumrede van dene og banede vejen for en institutionel krise.
Mr Santer, it is a poisoned gift, for Britain's act of blackmail will be a burden round your neck for the next five years.
De, hr. premierminister Santer, risikerer at blive det andet offer for snæversynede og egoistiske nationale interesser i en valgproces, som den britiske premierminister har saboteret fra begyndelsen af.
You cannot be completely impartial in the performance of your duties as President of the Commission after having been appointed by this kind of procedure.
For at imødegå denne stilstand og krise ønsker vi at rette blikket fremad.
And no-one has been able to explain why Mr Major accepted you and did not accept Mr Dehaene.
Europa-Parlamentets forhandlinger
What we want is progress, not an impasse and a crisis.
Og dette giver os anledning til frygt.
Debates of the European Parliament
(NL) Hr. Martens og hr. Kinkel sagde, at vi ville fremkalde en institutionel krise.
(NL) Mr Martens and Mr Kinkel have told us that we are causing an institutional crisis.
Det gør selvfølgelig et dybt indtryk, men der er ikke tale om en krise, men blot at Parlamentet som sådan vil udføre sin opgave.
Obviously we are very much impressed, but it is not a crisis: it is simply that we as a Parliament want to play our proper role.
Europa kræver af dette parlament nøjagtigt det samme, som det kræver af Dem, nemlig ansvarlighed og troværdighed.
Santer is the candidate of eleven heads of state and government, including some eminent socialists.
Dankert (PSE). - (NL) Jacques Delors har i kampen for bevarelse og styrkelse af Fællesskabet udbygget hvervet som formand for Kommissionen til en central stilling. Det er meget vanskeligt at finde nogen, som på dette punkt kan træde i hans fodspor.
I do not intend to vote against the candidate who has received the support of Felipe González, François Mitterand, Andreas Papandreou and Paul Rasmussen, not to mention Wim Kok, Willy Claes - whose own party's European members are now going out of their way to be critical -Jacques Poos and Dick Spring.
(FR) Og det er, hvad jeg vil sige til hr. Kinkel. Det, som han kalder en krise, er ingen krise.
(FR) This is what I would like to say to Mr Kinkel.
Det er Europa-Parlamentets ret at beslutte, at det vil afgive sin udtalelse fuldstændig uafhængigt.
Parliament has the right to issue its opinion without fear or favour.
De skal ikke frygte, at borgerne ikke vil forstå dette.
Do not think that the people will not understand.
Borgerne vil udmærket kunne forstå det og særlig de borgere, som forsvarer Europa, de borgere, som vil protestere mod det britiske veto, de fremskridtsvenlige borgere, som vil ophæve reglen om enstemmighed, de europæiske borgere, som ønsker en retfærdig beskatning af kapitalindkomsterne, og endelig de borgere, som har valgt parlamentsmedlemmerne på grundlag af deres program, for det, som de står for, for det, som de vil gøre på en åben måde, og ikke i en eftergivende overenskomst.
The people will under stand very well, particularly those who want to protect Europe and protest against the British veto: progressive citizens who want to see the end of the unanimity rale, European citizens who want a fair system of taxation on unearned income, citizens who have elected Members of the European Parliament on the basis of their programme, in other words as individuals who are clear about the action they are going to take and do not fudge it by a woolly consensus.
Topmøderne på Korfu og i Bruxelles har ved udviklingen i forbindelse med indstillingen af en kandidat-efterfølger ikke blot skadet Det Europæiske Råds anseelse, men også bragt formandskabet for Europa-Kommissionen i miskredit.
Ladies and gentlemen, the European Council is accused of making a mockery of democracy.
Det er mere end et proceduremæssigt problem.
Quite honestly, I do not know what this Parliament wants.
Det er ensbetydende med at skade hvervet, at skade kandidaten.
At the very least, it is not showing a great sense of responsibility by acting in this way.
Det gør det umuligt for et medlem af Europa-Parlamentet, som i sit effektive parlamentariske virke i høj grad er afhængig af et godt samarbejde med en respekteret Kommission, at acceptere resultatet fra Korfu og Bruxelles.
Might I remind you that this is the first time the European Parliament has been called upon to participate in the appointment of the Commission President, and that it is the European Parliament, in accordance with its Rules of Procedure, which requested the Council to submit a name.
Jeg beklager det inderligt på Jacques Santers vegne.
Under our own Rules of Procedure we have to ask the Council to arrive at an agreement: we cannot now hold it against the Council for having found one.
Formanden. - Kære kolleger, jeg har modtaget for slagene fra Formandskonferencen om valget af med lemmer til Parlamentets udvalg og de interparlamentariske delegationer samt medlemmerne af det midlertidige udvalg om beskæftigelse.
President. - I have received the proposals from the Conference of Presidents for appointments of Members to the parliamentary committees, the interparliamentary delegations, and the Temporary Committee on Employ ment.
Disse lister vil blive omdelt snares muligt.
The lists will be distributed to you as soon as possible.
Fristen for ændringsforslag til disse forslag udløber i dag kl. 15.00.
The deadline for tabling amendments to these proposals is 3 p.m. today.
Afstemningen om disse forslag finder sted kl. 17.00.
The vote will take place at 5 p.m.
Det er nødvendigt, at der nu hurtigt findes en kandidat.
The Single Act and the Maastricht Treaty were prepared under his presidency.
En kandidat, som kan bringe Europa tættere på borgerne, en kandidat, som kan yde modvægt mod de nationalistiske tendenser, som både Rådets formand, hr. Kinkel og hr. Santer for et øjeblik siden beklagede.
I should also like to point out that, since his appointment by the European Council, he asked to make contact with Parliament, to see its new President and to introduce himself to the Political Groups.
En kandidat, som må anses for at være i stand til at standse den proces, hvor Kommissionens beføjelser gradvis udhules af Rådets formandskab.
He is a man with obvious social convictions, and as a socialist I can testify to the fruitful cooperation we have had with Mr Santer over the last ten years in our government coalition.
Jeg kan endnu ikke nævne navnet på den kandidat, og det er i denne procedure heller ikke min rolle.
Finally, he has experience of leading a government team with tact and firm ness: he is a colleague who knows how to direct a team and whom one can rely on to motivate them to achieve a given project and look beyond it to new horizons.
Jeg vil dog opfordre medlemmerne af Det Europæiske Råd til at udvide kandidatkredsen ud over gruppen af »en af vore egne«.
For these reasons, Mr President, the Luxembourg socialists will be voting for Mr Santer.
Kirsten Jensen (PSE). - Hr. formand, de danske social demokrater deltager ikke i forkastelsen af Jacques San ters kandidatur.
Kirsten Jensen (PSE). - (DA) Mr President, the Danish Social Democrats will not be party to the rejection of Jacques Santer's candidacy.
For det første mener vi, at det er i orden, at medlemslandene har mulighed for at vetoe et forslag til formandskandidat.
We believe that it is quite right for the Member States to be able to veto a proposed candidate for the Presidency.
Storbritanniens regering har latterliggjort sig selv i denne sag.
The UK Government has made itself a laughing stock in this instance.
Med store armbevægelser har Major forhindret én kandidat for siden at acceptere en anden med stort set de samme kvalifikationer.
Mr Major made a great show of blocking one candidate, only to accept another with largely the same qualifications.
Major har spildt vores tid, men har derudover ikke gjort større skade.
He wasted our time, but that is about all the harm he did.
Jeg vil ikke klage over personalet, men i betragtning af, at det er hr. Major, der har været arkitekten bag denne fiasko, vil jeg spørge, om der hurtigt kan gribes ind, så hans repræsentant får mulighed for at overvære afstemningen kl. 12.30?
It was one of the major points of discussion during the elections and it is important for a President of the Commission to know the importance that we as parliamentarians attach to the whole question of employment in the Community.
Dette Parlament har altid vidst, at vores ret til at godkende Rådets forslag til ny formand for Kommissionen har svagheder.
Whether or not we vote No today, the new candidate will of course also be the outcome of Mr Major's 'blackmail', as will be the next and every subsequent one.
Svaghederne er, at afstemningen skal foregå i et nyvalgt Europa-Parlament, og at Rådet er den eneste indstillingsberettigede.
In our opinion it would be too easy to reject Mr Santer on procedural grounds.