Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-11-18-Speech-4-172"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991118.7.4-172"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-18-Speech-4-1732
lpv:speaker	lp:Freddy Blak2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Socialdemokratiet (1999-07-20--2002-12-08)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; CONT (1999-07-21--2001-12-11)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2001-12-18)3
lpv:translated text	"The Danish Social Democrats have today voted against Mr Dimitrakopoulos’s and Mr Leinen’s report. The enlargement of the EU is an historic opportunity to create a peaceful, stable and cooperative Europe. At the same time, it is the EU’s greatest challenge to date. A change to the Treaties is a prerequisite for preparing the EU to admit the new Eastern and Central European countries. It is now 10 years since the Berlin Wall came down. We agree to the timetable which has been proposed so that the Intergovernmental Conference might be concluded by the end of the year 2000. It must not be formalities such as changing the Treaties which postpone admission of the new countries. That is why we must also be careful not to place obstacles or stumbling blocks in the way of the Intergovernmental Conference's ending on time and of its results being approved in the individual countries in accordance with the regulations in the respective countries’ constitutions. Mr Dimitrakopoulos’s and Mr Leinen’s report paves the way for a very thorough overhaul which we do not think it will be possible to implement within the established time frame. We have therefore voted against it. The many amendments and the many different opinions which have been expressed in connection with the vote today illustrate as clearly as one could wish the problems which a very comprehensive agenda would entail. As members of the Group of the Party of European Socialists, we have voted, together with our fellow party members, for and against a range of amendments. We have done so because we want European development to move in a characteristically social democratic direction. This does not however alter our general view of the report. There are however a number of points which we must clearly reject, including initiatives which remove the basic principle that it is the Member States which, in accordance with their respective constitutions, should enter into and amend the Treaty concerned. We must also clearly repudiate the idea of the EU’s being made into a defensive alliance. This is not a task for the EU but for NATO."@en1

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