newsitems Spanish EU President-in-office, Minister Garrido to EuroFora: EU Citizens' Initiatives in 1 Month+?
Spanish EU President-in-office, Minister Garrido to EuroFora: EU Citizens' Initiatives in 1 Month+?
It's in about 1 Month that EU Citizens' new right to collectively lodge a Legislative Initiative, should have an effective framework, said to "EuroFora" the Spanish EU 2010 Chairman-in-office, Minister for EU affairs Diego Lopez Garrido, after a hearing by EU Parliament's Constitutional Committee, this Monday evening in Strasbourg, on various issues concerning the implementation of Lisbon Treaty in real practice, after it entered legally into force since last December 2009.
The January - June 2010 Spanish EU Presidency gives such an importance to EU Citizens' issues, that Lopez Garrido stressed the fact that he "divided (his) presentation to the (EU Parliament's Constitutional) Committee in 2 Parts : A) on Institutional matters, and B) on developments concerning EU Citizens' role".
- "We (Spanish EU 2010 Chairmanship) hope to have everything ready for the Citizens' Initiative the soonest possible", Garrido stressed, afterwards to "EuroFora".
- Already, "the EU Council has accepted that Unanimously, and EU Parliament agrees", he observed.
- "So, now it's up to the EU Commission" to prepare a communication and "present a proposal" to determine the concrete procedure to follow, Garrido pointed out.
Questioned by "EuroFora" on "how long" he thinks that the EU Commission's move should take, the EU 2010 Spanish Chairman in office replied that he expects that to take no more than "1 Month, or one and a half", at the latest.
This new EU Citizens' right, which allows to 1 million EU Citizens (i.e. 1 out of 500 in average), from various EU Countries, to officially present a proposal for a new EU Legislation at EU Parliament's Petition Committee, raised several practical questions from MEPs during Garrido's Hearing, (fex. on "how many EU Countries should participate ?", etc).
The new EU Commissioner in charge also of EU "Citizenship" is Viviane Reding from Luxembourg, who joins a rare experience of EU mecanisms, as both former EU Commissioner , former Minister, and former MEP.
As Reding recently stressed to "EuroFora", speaking in general for her new portofolio, which includes Justice, EU's new Charter of Fundamental Rights, and EU Citizenship, she is well aware that 2010 will be a very interesting but also "hard" working year..
Meanwhile, "EuroFora" met, at this occasion, also with the new EU Ambassador at large for "European Integration Projects", the experienced long-time former MEP Carlos Carnero Gonzalez, (personally known since .. 1995, when we were starting to work as a Journalist at EU Parliament, i.e. more than 16 Years !)
Recently appointed by the Spanish EU 2010 Presidency, Carnero Gonzalez' new mission was warmly welcomed also by the vice-President of EU Parliament's Constitutional Committee, MEP Zita Gurmai from Hungary, the next, January-June 2011 EU Chair, which works "in trio", on a 18 Months-long framework program, together with the current Spanish (January-June 2010) and the forthcoming Belgian (July-December 2010) EU Chairs.
Asked by "EuroFora" about the scope of the "EU Integration Projects" on which he intends to focus, Carnero Gonzalez replied that he aims to cover a wide horizon, with various kinds of projects, without excluding also ideas such as "EuroFora"'s declared aim to help EU Citizens' joint Debates on the European decision-making process, (See relevant publication)".
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(Opinion).
In Democracy, the forthcoming choices for EU's Top Jobs, as the New EU Parliament's President, new EU Commission's President (+ probably EU Council's President, EU Foreign Minister, etc) should be made according to EU Citizens' Votes in June 7, 2009 European Elections, and main EU Governments' strategic policies.
At the heart of the biggest EU Countries, in France and Germany, EU Citizens clearly voted for a renovated, non-technocratic but Political Europe based on Values, declared explicitly incompatible with Turkey's controversial EU bid.
This main choice was also supported in several other small or medium EU Countries, such as Austria (cf. promise of a Referendum), Spain (cf. EPP program's reservations vis a vis Enlargment), etc., while EPP Parties won also in Poland, Hungary, Cyprus, etc.
In other Countries, whenever Governing coalitions didn't make these choices or eluded them, continuing to let a Turkish lobby push for its entry into the EU, they paid a high price, and risked to damage Europe, by obliging EU Citizens to massively vote for euro-Sceptics whenever they were the only ones to offer a possibility to promise real change and oppose Turkey's demand to enter into the EU :
It's for this obvious reason that British UKIP (IndDem) succeeded now (after many statements against Turkey's EU bid) to become Great Britain's 2nd Party, unexpectedly growing bigger even than the Governing Labour Party, as well as the Liberal party ! Facts prove that it's not an isolated phenomenon : A similar development occured in the Netherlands, where Geert Wilders "Party for Freedom" (PVV) became also the 2nd biggest in the country, (after EPP), boosting the chances of a politician who had withdrawn in 2004 from an older party "because he didn't agree with their position on Turkey". And in several other EU Member Countries, even previously small parties which now focused on a struggle against Turkey's controversial demand to enter in the EU, won much more or even doubled the number of their MEPs (fex. Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, etc).
On the contrary, whenever Socialist and oher parties were explicitly or implicitly for Turkey's controversial EU bid, they obviously lost Citizens' votes and fell down to an unprecedented low.
In consequence, EU Citizens clearly revealed their main political choices, in one way or another : They voted to change for less Bureaucracy, but more Politics and Values in a Europe really open to EU Citizens, but without Turkey's controversial EU bid.
Recent political developments are obviously different from the old political landscape which existed in the Past of 1999-2004, when Socialists based on Turkish 1% vote governed undisputed not only in Germany, but also in the UK, Greece and elsewhere, France followed old policies decided when it had been divided by "cohabitation", before the 3 "NO" to EU Referenda since May 2005, before Merkel, before Sarkozy, etc.... before the surprises of 7 June 2009 new EU Elections.
If the current candidates to the Top EU jobs promise and guarantee to respect People's democratic choices, OK.
Otherwise, Europe must find new candidates, really motivated and able to implement these democratic choices of the People.
The beginning of crucial, final Decisions are scheduled for the 1st EU Parliament's plenary session in Strasbourg, in the middle of July, and they could be completed towards the October session, when Lisbon Treaty's fate will have been fixed.
See relevant Facts also at : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/2009electionsandturkey.html
http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/daulelections.html
http://www.eurofora.net/brief/brief/euroelectionresult.html
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