Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-07-21-Speech-3-079"
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"en.19990721.6.3-079"2
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"(FI) Mr President, Finland"s goal is the right one: there has to be more transparency within the EU. Right at the start, the EU"s Finance Ministers, under the leadership of Finland, reached the conclusion that it is only possible to speak of EMU within the EU if it is with one voice. As a result, we have now fallen silent in eleven languages over the subject of monetary policy in the EU. Under Finland"s leadership, transparency and public accountability should extend to the secret and secretive work of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
Finland is a non-aligned country, and not a member of NATO. Nevertheless, she should show more credibility in her opposition to an EU common defence force. We should not give in to the former Social Democrats and the Green pacifists, to Schröder, Fischer, Blair, D"Alema or Solana, who want more arms for Europe, and to expand NATO. NATO is also now an organisation on the offensive. It will be Finland"s task to see to it that EU Member States are free to remain non-aligned. This goal is being undermined by the principle that the EU should have a common will, a common policy and a common voice, a goal the 70 per cent of Finns who did not vote in the European Parliamentary elections were opposed to."@en1
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"Seppänen (GUE/NGL)"1
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