I wish to ask you Madam President-in-Office of the Council, whether you can support this position when you are assembling your papers for the forthcoming Inter-Governmental Conference and, firstly, for the Convention for which we are all striving? It is there that the breakthrough should at last occur, so that the European Parliament can draw even in institutional terms with the American Senate and House of Representatives.
Κύριε Πρόεδρε, ο Επίτροπος Lamy επεσήμανε ότι είναι αναγκαίο να ενισχυθεί θεσμικά ο ρόλος του Ευρωπαϊκού Κοινοβουλίου στην ευρωπαϊκή εμπορική πολιτική και τον ευχαριστούμε γι 'αυτό.