Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-10-23-Speech-3-037"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-10-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparatory work for the European Council in Brussels on 24-25 October2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021023.1.3-037"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-10-23-Speech-3-0382
lpv:speaker	lp:Ole Krarup2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (2002-07-01--2003-02-23)3 unknown; Folkebevægelsen mod EU (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-09-09--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, this enlargement project is to the little country I hail from, Denmark, a matter of national pride. The criteria for the accession of new Member States were drawn up at the Copenhagen Summit in 1993, and the process is to be concluded at the Copenhagen Summit in December. It is irrational that this should be a matter of pride for the little nation, but it boosts our self-confidence, and that is of course always good. The problem is, of course, simply that so many issues are still unresolved. The Belgian negotiator of the Maastricht Treaty, an economist by profession, has stated that there is a long series of funding problems which have not been solved. Everyone wants enlargement, he says, but no one wants to pay for it. Why, for example, should the British keep their rebate while the much poorer candidate countries pay full price? This is one problem. Another problem, which has been completely overlooked, and which is under the extremely roomy carpet under which problems are swept, is the question of the reliability of the progress reports. I cannot find a single instance in these analyses of a sober attitude to the decisive question of the last and crucial Copenhagen criterion, according to which the candidate countries not only have to comply with the but must also have the administrative, legal and political structure which is a prerequisite for its effective implementation. A Swedish report last week pointed out that these problems are extremely serious. Simple mathematics demonstrate that the legal and administrative personnel simply do not have the training. The whole basis for actually implementing the is absent. These problems have not been dealt with, and the question to my Danish friend and former colleague, the Danish Minister for European Affairs, is: what do you intend to do about this badly neglected problem?"@en1
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