Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-01-19-Speech-3-035"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-01-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Action programme of the Portuguese Presidency including the situation in Angola2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000119.2.3-035"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-01-19-Speech-3-0362
lpv:speaker	lp:Nelly Maes2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)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 unknown; Volksunie (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 vice-chair; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2002-01-07)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-19--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President-in-Office of the Council, Commissioner, Mr President, a small country is used to dealing with a huge foreign area and this is promising with regard to the issues mentioned by the previous speaker, among others. The way in which your people, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, empathised with East Timor gives us hope that you will help lay a foundation for renewed peace and cooperation with Africa. We were really disappointed with Helsinki and the narrow IGC agenda and we hope that you will widen it as much as possible and use it to benefit reinforced cooperation. Today and in future, Europe must be able to function as a democracy. This is impossible without reform. Enlargement would then equate with a watering down of the Union. On behalf of our Group and, more specifically, on behalf of the European Free Alliance, I would ask your presidency’s attention for the regions and cultural communities which, strictly speaking, are not Member States but which are constitutionally authorised to carry out a number of activities in respect of which they should be able to cooperate with Europe. Mr Gama, we urge that this is done directly. To our disenchantment, Helsinki, in a country which is still known for its pleas for transparency, took a step in the opposite direction in the much vaunted annex 3. I would also like to note that, this week in Parliament, we spoke with great concern about the disparities in welfare between the regions in Europe. Unemployment in our poor regions is hardly dropping. How will we realise the huge ambitions of enlargement if we cannot even summon up respect for cultures and for languages in Europe itself, and if we are not even able to bridge the yawning gap in welfare between our own regions? I am aware that you are interested in and understand all this and I wish you every success in it."@en1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph