Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-12-14-Speech-2-244"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-12-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:NIS and Mongolia: economic reform and recovery (TACIS)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991214.11.2-244"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-12-14-Speech-2-2452
lpv:speaker	lp:Nicholas Clegg2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I wish to make two relatively brief points. Firstly, a request addressed to the Commission. I spent some hapless years working as a junior official in the TACIS programme some years ago. What I experienced, as I tried to interest everything from local transport authorities in Kishinev through to energy ministries in Uzbekistan was the following: just as in so many other EU policy areas, in TACIS projects we perhaps try to do too much across too many geographical boundaries in too many sectors. I think we are all aware of this danger of the dispersal of EU assistance in far-flung places. Could I make a plea that when this regulation comes into place the many loopholes which still remain in the regulation and which would allow a continued proliferation of small and excessively multiplied projects are closed and that a real, and perhaps in some cases ruthless, concentration of implementing projects is enforced. On the second point I address the rapporteur. It concerns the political issue of the partial suspension of at least the TACIS programme under the budget year 2000. I am glad to hear that the rapporteur has very much moved towards the amendment which the ELDR group tabled. Many of us are instinctively still not convinced that any form of suspension is the right way to respond to present circumstances but nevertheless that seems to be the drift of debate. In those circumstances, I would suggest that we at least make our words on the partial suspension of the TACIS programme under the budget year 2000 entirely compatible with what was decided in Helsinki, mainly and most particularly, that if we are going to save the democracy budget line we should also equally save the budget line which applies to nuclear safety projects."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and MERCOSUR (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Liberal Democrat Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Clegg (ELDR )."1

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