Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-11-19-Speech-2-160"
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"Mr President, and you, Commissioner Verheugen and Mr Haarder, Minister for European Affairs of the country to hold the presidency, who have both worked so hard today, may I say that you must have had a long day. I would, however, like to raise a matter that President Prodi mentioned today. He spoke in favour of a future European Union developing for itself a strong good-neighbour policy. Enlargement of the European Union in all its stages meant it acquired new neighbours. On the previous occasion the European Union acquired the Northern Dimension in addition to the western and southern dimensions that already existed. As a result of the forthcoming round of enlargement we shall have a very special eastern dimension.
The good-neighbour policy should not, however, remain just words on paper: the European Union should also develop a proper practical policy with goals and action. The northern and eastern dimensions meet in the Baltic Sea area. After enlargement the Baltic Sea will virtually be an internal sea of the EU, except, however, in one corner where it meets Russia and what is almost that country’s most populous region, St. Petersburg and the area around it. It is in this region that we must strengthen even further the cooperation that has already commenced, with the aim of achieving stability and social and ecological balance there. Furthermore, future regional and structural policy must make transboundary cooperation and cooperation on both the old and the new borders possible."@en1
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