Member quotes July 14th

Nikolas Tilaveridis: ...it is time for Europe to overhaul its telecommunications' policy and create a genuine internal market with pan-European fixed and mobile phone networks. That's the only way that the internal market could actually work. Instead of putting caps on roaming prices, maybe the legislation should force companies that operate networks in more member States to actually make them behave as one.

Kilinc Alkan: After all there is a certain and strict necessity to conceptualizing europeanness. Today in europe every head has a designation of europeanness and everybody talks about his/her own idea of europeanness and suppose that another one also has or should have the same.

Peter Davidson: I think we are all agreed that the institutional architecture of the EU needs a healthy injection of democratic medicine. The Parliament is seen as fundamentally democratic in nature, if lacking in powers. An elected upper house would add democratic credentials and legitimacy to the European institutional architecture.