Portugese Prime Minister Jose Socrates presented his agenda to the European Union parliament on Wednesday. The focus was on ending the impasse over a new EU treaty and appointing a new anti-terrorism coordinator. Socrates told EU parliamentarians in Strasbourg that his country's tenure in the rotating six-month position would "mark the end of the deadlocks and blockages that have held the European project back too long. "European citizens demand answers to questions which directly affect their everyday lives and where they recognize that Europe can produce concrete results that make a difference and contribute to improving their living conditions," Socrates said. Socrates' chief task will be to get all the EU's 27 member states to agree to long-overdue procedural reforms to its basic treaty. But he may find it difficult to deliver on his words.
Socrates told EU parliamentarians in Strasbourg that his country's tenure in the rotating six-month position would "mark the end of the deadlocks and blockages that have held the European project back too long.
"European citizens demand answers to questions which directly affect their everyday lives and where they recognize that Europe can produce concrete results that make a difference and contribute to improving their living conditions," Socrates said.
Socrates' chief task will be to get all the EU's 27 member states to agree to long-overdue procedural reforms to its basic treaty. But he may find it difficult to deliver on his words.
to agree to long-overdue procedural reforms to its basic treaty.
