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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-06-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Council of 19/20 June 20002
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000615.2.4-040"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-06-15-Speech-4-0412
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, Commissioner, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, the European Union will only be able to play its historic role if it decides to be more than the sum of its Member States. As representatives of the European peoples without their own state, we want the European Union to be a community of citizens, on the one hand, and correspond to the reality of peoples and regions and their political entities, on the other. This reality is not sufficiently recognised in the texts before us, if at all. Some Member States are struggling just as hard with granting autonomy to these various cultural and political entities as with relinquishing competences to create a federal Europe. In fact, this would mean a democratic U-turn which they do not seem to be prepared to make. This is once again evident from the way in which the IGC is going and from the expectations which are being expressed for Feira. In our opinion, the institutional reforms which it is hoped Feira will bring are sound but insufficient in our eyes. We fear, for example, that the refusal to develop a true federal authority will result in a common foreign and security policy which cannot really function properly. The establishment of a rapid reaction military force, therefore, threatens to become an expensive alibi which could only lead to the rapid militarisation of conflicts. This would fit in perfectly with the new arms spiral which can be set in motion under the guise of the American rocket programme and with the backing of NATO and non-NATO countries."@en1

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