Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-11-17-Speech-3-240"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Treaty reform/next IGC2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991117.7.3-240"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-17-Speech-3-2412
lpv:speaker	lp:Paavo Väyrynen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Suomen Keskusta (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 substitute; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; ELDR (1999-07-20--2002-03-06)3 substitute; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the report by Mr Dimitrakopoulos and Mr Leinen does not take adequate account of the fact that the European Union is fast taking on pan-European proportions. A decision may be taken at the Helsinki Summit to expand talks to include twelve countries. When official applicant country status is accorded to Turkey too, we may soon be receiving new applications for membership from the Balkans region and elsewhere. In the plenary part-session in October, I said that the conflict between EU expansion and deepening could only be solved by the internal reorganisation of the Union on the onion skin model, or a system of concentric circles. I proposed that the whole Union should develop as an association of states, but its core should develop into a full-fledged federation. I proposed that the outer circle of cooperation and integration would be the European Council, to which we could give new duties. I am glad that this idea of mine has met with a positive response in principle. It has not had time, however, to be reflected in the amendments that our Group has tabled for this report. For my own part, I cannot support the report by Mr Dimitrakopoulos and Mr Leinen. It is an attempt to continue to develop the Union into a federation, and it in no way takes account of how the robust enlargement process should influence the Union’s institutional development."@en1

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