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Co-president of the European parliamentary delegation of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Adrian Severin, leader of the Social Democrat MPs in the European Parliament (EP), says that the Europeans cannot accept to be “prisoners of endless delays” in the field of the institutional reform as proposed by the Lisbon Treaty.

According to the European deputy, the President of the Czech Republic should show respect for his own people and parliament and finalize the internal procedure of the ratification of this treaty. Severin gave this statement in front of the EP plenary, within the debates on Irish referendum outcome.

“The overwhelming Irish YES was not only the result of a better understanding of the Lisbon Treaty, but also of the fact that true respect must be mutual and full of compassion. Our Irish friends also understood that the European train does not endlessly expect those who miss their meeting with history”, stated Severin, member of the EP Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO), according to a release remitted on Thursday to AGERPRES by the Press Office of the Social Democrat delegation to EP.

But, in the Romanian MEP’s vision, the case of the Czech Republic is something different because the “Czech people adequately signaled its support for a more political and more social Europe, and at the same time more efficient and more democratic”. Severin maintained that, “in addition, the Government backed the Treaty’s ratification, later on ratified by the Parliament and that is why “we are not those who must show respect for the Czech people, but the President of the Czech Republic, he must show respect for his own people and parliament”.

“It is important for us to define the limits between what is fair and what represents an abuse and to proceed in such a manner able to demonstrate that, in our eyes, what is fair has a certain boundary and beyond that the abuse starts.

We cannot accept to be prisoners of endless delays; we must be aware that the Lisbon Treaty was ratified in conformity by all the member states and start laying the foundation for the institutions. The European Parliament must get totally involved in this process”, concluded the European Social Democrats’s vice-president.