Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-12-01-Speech-3-087"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-12-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation of European Council of 10-11 December 1999 in Helsinki2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991201.7.3-087"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-12-01-Speech-3-0882
lpv:speaker	lp:Gunilla Carlsson2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-07)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2000-05-17)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Moderata samlingspartiet (1999-07-20--2002-09-30)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2000-05-16)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, allow me to begin by congratulating the Finnish Presidency on what has, on the whole, been a good six months. I should like to thank you, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, for enabling the EU’s foreign and security policy, including its military capability, to be discussed so thoroughly today. The EU can now, within the framework of the Amsterdam Treaty, increase its credibility where commitment to freedom and peace in Europe are concerned. The Helsinki Summit is, in that respect, a test for Europe’s present leadership. Is there the will and the courage to get together to formulate, and give depth to, a policy which enables the people of Europe to see that there is force and not only words behind the desire to prevent human catastrophes such as that in Kosovo? Just as important a test of leadership is that involved in guaranteeing that the enlargement of the European Union can be carried out with the first new Member States acceding to the Union during the present term of office. In Helsinki, the preliminary values are being laid down for the Intergovernmental Conference which is to solve any remaining questions of power. We must have a European Union with the power to take decisions. Wishes for the future ought not, however, to be allowed to outstrip the historic task of taking advantage now of the historical opportunity to unify the whole of Europe. The Finnish Presidency and the Summit must hand over the baton to Portugal with one unequivocal goal: to conclude the Intergovernmental Conference in Paris with a view to making an open, cooperative Europe, united in a common purpose, into a reality and one which will make place great demands upon leadership, the capacity for change and the willingness to quarrel less over national and short-term interests."@en1

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