Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-09-16-Speech-4-018"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-09-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Reconstruction Agency – Situation in Kosovo2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19990916.2.4-018"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-09-16-Speech-4-0192
lpv:speaker	lp:Daniel Cohn-bendit2
lpv:spokenAs	member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; BUDG (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Les Verts-Europe-Ecologie (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I think that we have to be careful not to confuse fundamental problems with organisational ones. We agree that the Reconstruction Agency for Kosovo should be established in Pristina, but the Agency or the Office for the Reconstruction of Bosnia was in Sarajevo, and still faced enormous problems. In naming Pristina, we are not really saying anything other than that an agency for reconstruction in Kosovo should logically and effectively be done with the inhabitants of Kosovo. I propose nevertheless that we also discuss the way in which reconstruction will actually take place. Now, as far as this is concerned, what we know of the European Union in Bosnia is the enormous bureaucratic weight of the way we function as the European Union. In other words, instead of just focussing on Thessaloniki or Pristina, we should learn lessons from the situation in Bosnia, and try to set up autonomous structures which will be able to decide – in Pristina – on the details of the heavy reconstruction, that is: bridges, housing, streets, etc. and, at the same time, to work out the details of the reconstruction of the fabric of society. So what programme does this civilian society need in order to be able to, as Mr Haarder said, take control of reconstruction? Let us not leave this – I will not say to the KLA groups – I will simply say to the temptation to take military action which we should perhaps condemn in political terms, but which we can understand after everything that the people have been through, out of fear that a similar situation might reoccur. It is true that only democratisation will take us forwards. We could cite the example from Bosnia of the “3000 roofs for Bosnia” programme. This was a very basic programme, which consisted of saying to the population, “If you rebuild the walls of your house, we will pay for the roof, and if you have already rebuilt your roof, we will pay for your heating.” This was a programme designed to get the population active, at all levels. I would therefore like to see us think carefully about autonomous decision-making bodies in Pristina, which would give the population the power to decide, in conjunction with us, what needs to be done. I would also not want to see an excess of bureaucracy in Brussels, given the way the European Union functions as a rule."@en1
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