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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-11-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Progress report on enlargement2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021119.2.2-155"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-11-19-Speech-2-1562
lpv:speaker	lp:Ria Oomen-ruijten2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Temporary committee on foot and mouth disease (2002-01-17--2002-12-17)3 unknown; Christen Democratisch Appèl (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with South Africa (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, last week, I gave secondary school children in my province a few lessons on Europe and the imminent enlargement. My audience was, and this is striking in this day and age, attentive, interested, and also unperturbed. My political statement that it is not our political, or our personal, merit that we were born on the sunny side of the Iron Curtain and that it is through no fault of their own that the acceding countries had to live in our shadow for so long, was taken on board with due respect. However, whether my argument was sufficiently convincing was evident from the questions afterwards. How does it serve us, what are the precise benefits to us? This morning's debate also shows the other side of the coin. Alongside the firm conviction that it is important to have this one indivisible Europe to guarantee that people can live together in peace, there were also other notions. How welcome are we? Are we not turning into second-class citizens and what are you giving us in terms of extra funding to help us convince the citizens on our side? We have managed to convincingly set in motion an enlargement scenario that should succeed. However, we should take to heart the fact that we have been less successful totally convincing our citizens of the importance of, and need for, the political ideal that this enlargement is for us all. We have communicated too little, and this means that uncertainty, or latent gut feelings, have a chance of surfacing, and enlargement degenerates into a political game with short-term gain. I am also taking part in this debate in my capacity as enlargement rapporteur for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy and I therefore follow the issue closely. Something else that we should take to heart is the fact that people worry. These worries revolve around food safety, free movement, environmental issues and the cross-border approach to them. These also involve the nuclear power plants, shut down on the one hand and shrouded in doubt on the other. I think that now, after Copenhagen, we should tackle this issue firmly with both hands and far more effectively."@en1

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