Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-10-04-Speech-3-103"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-10-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001004.7.3-103"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-04-Speech-3-1042
lpv:speaker	lp:Joaquim Miranda2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Partido Comunista Português (1999-07-20--2004-01-31)3 chair; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--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 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2002-03-05)3
lpv:translated text	". The size and breadth of the problems raised by enlargement are incompatible with the duplicitous language that has been used about it within the European Union. It is in fact totally unacceptable that doors should have been opened and that candidate countries should have been given false expectations, while at the same time, with the aim of effectively postponing enlargement, an insurmountable tangle of difficulties and conditions should now be put in the way of its implementation, or obstacles should be raised that have been known about since the beginning, to the extent that proposals have already been put forward to analyse the costs of non-enlargement. We, for our part, have always stood by the logic of truth, however hard it may be to accept. That is why, even though we do not object to enlargement in principle, we have always argued right from the start that a definitive position on this will depend on the conditions in which it actually takes place. We say this because we have never ignored the fact that obstacles to its implementation would arise at all sorts of levels, and it is true and inevitable that to overcome them will require strong political willpower, new financial means, and above all a thorough analysis of its effects both on the current Member States and on the candidate countries, particularly at the institutional, economic, financial and social levels. By way of example, let me repeat that it will not be acceptable to us if it takes place at the expense of the less highly-developed Member States – as suggested by the failure to review the financial perspective – or if it entails an institutional change such as the one that some people are advocating."@en1

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