Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-10-27-Speech-3-261"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-10-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Turkish participation in Socrates and Youth for Europe programmes2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991027.11.3-261"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-10-27-Speech-3-2622
lpv:speaker	lp:Sebastiano (Nello) Musumeci2
lpv:spokenAs	member; UEN (1999-07-22--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (1999-09-09--2000-05-22)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Alleanza nazionale (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 member; PECH (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, the Italian delegation from is fully in favour of Turkey being included among the beneficiary countries of the Youth and SOCRATES programmes. This is not just a deserved tribute to culture, but it is also an objective political assessment which springs, in particular, from the knowledge that we have a State – Turkey – as an interlocutor, which is still a long way from fully upholding human rights and the principles of freedom and democracy which the European Unions is based on. And it is for this precise reason that we must stimulate and encourage full involvement of the young people of that country in a sound policy of exchanges, mobility and meeting the other young people of Europe. Youth has always been the first to long for novelty, change and growth – even cultural growth – of a country. The young are an extremely efficient means of transmitting sound values, characterised by democracy. The European Parliament has already done well at first reading – and here I would like to thank the rapporteur, Mr Gargani – in saying that it will allow Turkey to take part in the exchanges envisaged by the two programmes. Besides, to deny this chance would mean increasing the isolation of that Mediterranean State from a Europe which has to seek dialogue, especially with those, as in this case, young people, who cannot be expected to take the blame for something that is not their fault, but which is the fault of a government which we still have our reservations about. Therefore, allowing Turkey access to the SOCRATES and Youth programmes does not confer legitimacy on a State that has not yet shown concrete evidence of maturity with regard to the rights of minorities, but it does contribute to helping young people to accelerate the slow and difficult process of achieving this."@en1

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