Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-11-19-Speech-2-168"

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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	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021119.2.2-168"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-11-19-Speech-2-1692
lpv:speaker	lp:Franco Marini2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; ECON (2002-01-30--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partito popolare italiano (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, after today’s debate, I understand why Turkey is calling upon the forthcoming December Council to set a date for the start of the negotiations. I support Turkey’s request, for what is happening here is a farce, started by Mr Giscard d’Estaing and continuing today in this Chamber. Here, we are not discussing whether Turkey is fulfilling the conditions it needs to fulfil in order to become a member of the Union in the near future – and we can be rigorous in demanding that it does fulfil them – we are opening a debate on whether or not Turkey is to be allowed to join the Union in the future and wondering whether a different sort of association might be appropriate. We are going back on decisions already made and reopening the debate on the opening of a line of credit for a major country – a country which is essential to Europe and the West – which has applied to become a full member of the Union. Personally, I support the line taken by Mr Brok in his report and his resolution, where he calls for greater pre-accession cooperation from the Commission and for the Council to adopt a position which is more in line with that expressed on occasions by Parliament, but I do not support the Ferber amendment – which I will vote against tomorrow – in that if it were to be adopted, the whole approach of the Brok report and resolution would be turned upside down and they would make no sense. There are good reasons for what I am saying: we have a duty to be unambiguous towards a major country which practises moderate Islam, is pro the West, which could have great cultural significance on our borders and could give substance to a Union foreign and security policy. I hope that, tomorrow, we will reject the Ferber amendment – as a member of the European People’s Party I will do so – and we will thus be able to take a step in that direction."@en1

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