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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-29"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Mediterranean policy2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000329.7.3-093"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-29-Speech-3-0942
lpv:speaker	lp:Pasqualina Napoletano2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Democratici di Sinistra (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-22--2000-09-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, our group has joined with other groups to hold a debate on Mediterranean policy, and I cannot deny that this initiative stems from a two-fold concern. The first is a general consideration. I would like to make this very clear to the representatives of the Council and the Commission: as a group, although I imagine that we are not the only group to feel this way, we are concerned that the Mediterranean policy which, in 1995, was at the centre of a major project, the Barcelona project, no longer appears to be a political priority for the Union. This is a general political concern. We feel that Mediterranean policy needs to be thoroughly analysed and relaunched, on a par with enlargement, or perhaps more so than this, seeing that the enlargement strategy is now safely underway. The second point is more specific. In our view, Barcelona defined the major points of this policy, but, with the passage of time, these have been lost from sight. Our feeling, which will become apparent from the resolution which is to be put to the vote, is that complete priority has been given to a procedure for the development of a free trade area, shifting the emphasis from other policies which, in our opinion, should go hand in hand with the objective of building a free trade area, which we fully support. This means that the pillars which were the basis for Barcelona must be adopted and perhaps even reinforced. I refer to a policy of support for investment, support for employment, support for decentralised cooperation and support for a policy of joint management of migratory flows, and also a policy for culture, schools, young people and for setting up dynamic, worthwhile exchanges between these countries and their communities. Furthermore, we stress the fact that, although the association agreements are important and their ratification procedure does need to be speeded up, they cannot be used as the basis for a policy which must, by nature, be multilateral. And this is a weak point. We therefore welcome the major step taken by Parliament in deciding, through the Presidents of the Groups, to convene the Interparliamentary Forum. We agree to support the civil forum. We welcome the French presidency’s announcement in its programme of its intention to hold the next Euro-Mediterranean Conference in Marseilles, but we feel that the Marseilles Euro-Mediterranean Conference must be more than just a run-of-the-mill administrative conference. The political signal which we must all send out together and the instruments which are decided upon must be capable of successfully relaunching this policy and restoring its status. I hope I have been clear. We feel very strongly about this issue."@en1

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