Udsættelse af afstemning om Lissabon-traktaten i EU-Parlamentet
Her kan du læse den tale Jens-Peter Bonde holdt mandag d. 18. februar, da han forsøgte at få udskudt afstemningen af betænkningen vedrørende Lissabon-traktaten. Talen er desværre kun på engelsk.
Mr. President,
It is your task to give this parliament a good image as a serious scrutinizer of European affairs.
I therefore ask you to move the vote on the Lisbon report.
The deadline for amendments for the report on the Lisbon treaty was set before we received the Lisbon Treaty from the committee.
We have still not received the consolidated version you promised after a unanimous decision in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
I have started asking questions on the basis of a private consolidated version and have already found misleading mistakes in the translations.
For 29 years you and I have disagreed on constitutional matters - except for transparency.
Our disagreements have always been dealt with in a serious way after proper scrutiny in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
I fight for moving competences from the non-elected Commission to this directly elected Parliament. We have proposed that no EU law should be passed without the approval of this house.
How can we defend this support to the European Parliament when you close our decision making process before any person in this house has read a readable version of the treaty?
The last IGC is the most secretive negotiations on a treaty we have ever seen.
I urge you to keep the debate on Wednesday but move the vote so we can be seen as a serious parliament by all citizens in Europe.
We are not part of the executive.
We represent the voters.
Thank you Mr. President
