Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-06-12-Speech-2-198"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-06-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Development of the external service2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010612.10.2-198"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-06-12-Speech-2-1992
lpv:speaker	lp:Christos Zacharakis2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2000-08-30--2002-01-14)3,3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2000-09-04--2002-01-14)3,3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3,3 unknown; Nea Dimokratia (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-10-04--2001-09-05)3,3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I should like first of all to congratulate the rapporteur, Mr Galeote, on his highly detailed and substantiated report. Surely there can be no doubt that this is a particularly serious question which touches on a fundamental aspect of the work of the European Union, i.e. the common foreign and security policy and, hence, the active and efficient presence of the Union on the international stage and its ability to play a leading role in a consistent, coordinated manner, quite independent of any factors extraneous to Europe. However, this objective cannot be achieved without a suitable, operational tool. And this tool is none other than a well organised external diplomatic service, with specialised and highly trained cadres to man the Union's delegations or embassies so that, by operating within an institutionalised regulatory framework of relations with the European Parliament and the Council, they can develop into real representatives of Union policy and interests and of the interests of the Member States as a whole. And in order for this to happen, the diplomatic services and delegations of the Union and of the Member States will need to be properly coordinated. The report anticipates this by making provision for a system of cooperation and agreement to be developed between these services. Of course, all this needs resources and a great deal of money, which will obviously need to be provided transparently and by carefully weighting requirements and the expediency and usefulness of each item of expenditure, accompanied by a real desire to strengthen the external service so as to ensure that it has the means to fulfil its mission productively. Finally, special attention must be paid, as the report notes, to arrangements governing relations between the external service and delegations and the European Parliament, both as regards having systemised contacts, with reports and appearances by the heads of the delegations in Parliament and its competent committees, and as regards some of the delegations taking on the job of providing assistance in connection with visits and missions by members of the European Parliament to third countries."@en1

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