Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-06-15-Speech-4-099"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-06-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000615.3.4-099"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-06-15-Speech-4-1002
lpv:speaker	lp:Luís Marinho2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-president; European Parliament (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Partido Socialista (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and MERCOSUR (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (2000-03-08--2002-01-16)3 member; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"In paragraph 8 on Austria of the resolution approved on the Feira European Council, this House has ended up adopting a very hypocritical position which is in total contradiction of all the positions which it has previously taken on this issue. In my opinion, it is not a question of being against the principle of returning relations with Austria to normal. It is a question of the right opportunity and time for this political change to occur. A resolution on the European Council should specify that it is up to the latter to take this political change in hand by taking advantage of its meeting in Feira. However, this is not what the text does. On the contrary, it asks the Portuguese Presidency to do this. Clearly, at this point four days before the European Council, it is now the responsibility of this summit, as a whole and as the highest body of the Union, to take advantage of this historic opportunity to update the EU’s policy on Austria. Giving this task to the Portuguese Presidency is an attempt to place all the responsibility for what may happen on the shoulders of one country which cannot, at the wrong time and on its own, solve a problem which concerns us all. This is not to mention the reasons for this approval which are difficult to understand given the basic policy. After all, what has changed in Austria? Has the government fallen? Fortunately this small part of the text does not invalidate the rest of its content which I regard as positive. Unfortunately it was clearly much more to serve the petty interests of the Portuguese component of the PPE that this group adopted this position than due to the belief in and usefulness of this particular vote."@en1

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