Seanad debates

Wednesday, 12 March 2003

Convention on the Future of Europe: Statements.

 

To make Europe more democratic, we must simplify Europe's constitution so that every European citizen can easily find out who does what, and who is to blame. Without a blame-taker, there is no democracy. Each citizen must be able to find out easily what the European Union may do, and what it may not do. We have made progress in the Convention on these matters to date. We are almost half-way through the drafting of the first part of a new constitution for Europe which will answer those four basic questions, and it will be a readable document that will go a long way towards ensuring that people know who does what, etc.

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