Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-09-15-Speech-3-187"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in East Timor (continued)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990915.11.3-187"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-15-Speech-3-1882
lpv:speaker	lp:Avril Doyle2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, the only issue left to address at this stage, given the broad range of contributions from all sides of this House, is why we are surprised about what has happened in Indonesia, why we are surprised at the impotent response of the European Union to the tragic genocide of the last two weeks in East Timor. If we were unable to intervene and intervene promptly and properly in Kosovo, on our own doorstep, without weeks and months of prevarication and legal consultation to see what we could or could not do, how could we really expect the EU to respond as we would wish and the citizens of Europe would wish to the tragedy in East Timor? What is it about the institutions of Europe – about the European Parliament, about the European Union collectively – that makes us unable to respond to the crises in the world as our people, our voters, our citizens would want us to do? We need urgently to examine why our response is always – as I said yesterday and others said today – too little, too late. We are a multi-billion pound, multi-billion dollar talking-shop, as far as the citizens of Europe and the world are concerned. We are never there when it counts. We always respond several months too late, we spend hours debating crises in this House and in other institutions, but we are not there, when it counts, as quickly as we should be. Why? Maybe the answer will come from the next two speakers. Why is it always too little, too late? Why was it a surprise that there was genocide since the referendum two weeks ago? Why was the UN Council taken by surprise? We had guaranteed these people that if they exercised their democratic rights and voted we would protect them and see it out to the end. We failed, and failed miserably. The international community should hang its head and the European Union along with it. What is wrong? What needs to be done to enable us to respond as we should? That is the only question that needs to be answered because we are too late now. Others have taken up our cudgels. Let us not be caught in this position again."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--1999-10-11)3 unknown; Fine Gael Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Doyle (PPE )."1

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