EN - Martin Schulz: We must take in account the #reality. The #SameVoters, who perhaps say: “But I don’t recognize on such great #compromises”, as you called it, my political view, the same voters sent members to the Parliament in a way where #neither the #right wing nor the #left wing can build a majority. Theoretically, the PPE could join a cooperation with the Liberals [ALDE Group – Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament], plus ECR Group, plus #Farage, plus #LePen … OK! Theoretically, my group, the Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament could join with the #Liberals, the Greens/EFA, and GUE/NGL, a cooperation of #330seats, I counted it very seriously, under one circumstance: that the #Greekcommunists vote together with the #BolkesteinLiberals ! (Martin Schulz shrugs his shoulders) So if you want to come to #majorities, there is #NoAlternative. First of all, the 2 big groups try to build a majority: it is unavoidable to manage the House – therefore, the agreement is called a technical agreement, it is not a content agreement. The 2 big groups have to find a common basis, but this is #NotAClosedJob, we have to enlarge to other groups, to the Liberals, to the Greens ; I think the tendency in the PPE is perhaps more to the ECR, but whatever will happen, we need #solutions and we need majorities. For the #TTIP, we need a majority in the Parliament, and it will be a compromise majority, I hope in the right way. For the preparation of the #ParisConference next year, in the whole process of law-making for the environment question, for the #ReIndustrialisation, for rules in the #FinancialMarkets, you need majorities, best qualified in 1st and 2nd reading. So this is a Parliament of permanent compromise, and I know, as a citizen from a federal country where this is normal, in #Germany it is #normal, that different political tendencies, because of our different constitution structure, have to cooperate. For Germans it’s quite easy to understand, but people coming from countries with a political system where the winner takes everything, and the looser has nothing, for them it’s absolutely #difficult to understand, and I understand their concern, their surprise, their worry, but we have no alternative. Your country, you are Dutch, knows very #HeterogeneousCoalitions - in the Netherlands, in the past ; they have now one coalition with 2 parties, but I remember very well, the last 20 years, these very heterogeneous coalitions, one from the PvdA to the left-center-left, one centre-right, coalition, but this is not new, and a coalition between these 2 parties is for sure better than a coalition between CDA [christian-democrats, centre-right] and VVD [liberals from PM in charge Mark Rutte] and PVV (nationalist Eurosceptic party from Geert Wilders) [First Rutte Cabinet with PVV support, 2010-2012]. © Frédérick Moulin 2014 & © EU2014 - EP
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 12:50:43 +0000
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