Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-29-Speech-3-097"

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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	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000329.7.3-097"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-29-Speech-3-0982
lpv:speaker	lp:Carlos Bautista Ojeda2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; EMPL (1999-09-15--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2003-07-06)3 unknown; Partido Andalucista (1999-07-20--2003-07-06)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, enlargement is essential. It is genuinely important for the future of the European Union, as it is the only way to prevent Europe becoming an island of prosperity surrounded by poverty. However, if enlargement towards the East is inevitable, how can we explain that enlargement should only happen in one direction, taking us further away from the Mediterranean, which is so near by, forgetting how near the countries of the Maghreb are, some of which enjoy a special association status with the European Union, and that our future is intimately connected with theirs. This is no need to remind you of the important common interests we have with those countries in terms of agriculture and fishing, nor the serious shared problems relating to immigration between Andalusia and Morocco, which create added difficulties. European regions such as Andalusia, which are very close to the countries of the Maghreb, share more interests and problems with those countries than they do with other Member States of the Union, and far more than they do with the future candidates for enlargement. In fact, this love-hate situation between certain Community regions and the Maghreb creates unnecessary tensions, both economic and social, which we must resolve by putting all our powers of negotiation on the table and by using all the existing mechanisms, or new ones which should be created, in order to relaunch Euro-Mediterranean cooperation. In this respect, do the Council and the Commission believe that the creation of an inter-regional body or council for the Straits of Gibraltar, consisting of political representatives of the bordering countries and the European Union itself, could be useful and allow for the decentralisation of cooperation?"@en1

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