Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-11-20-Speech-3-055"

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dcterms:Date	"2002-11-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Commission annual legislative and work programme for 20032
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021120.1.3-055"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-11-20-Speech-3-0562
lpv:speaker	lp:Nelly Maes2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; G/EFA (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3 unknown; België Spirit (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Caudron has just given us his shopping list of good intentions and I have no intention of repeating it. I would just like to say that although I am happy with it, I would have preferred a more strategic debate. I, like Mrs Wallis, think that we have to set priorities and that Europe has to decide on its place and its role in the world and in the future of the world. This is really the main priority for me and for us. We must start by adapting our own institutions and asking ourselves whether our own house is in order. I would again ask for attention to be given to the place of the regions, this is becoming an important issue. So many small states will be joining the European Union, with all that entails, including their own language, their own place in the Council, in Parliament and in the Commission. The constitutional regions, the other regions too, the regions with their own language, their own culture, even with legislative and their own implementing authorities, will continue to be deprived of all this and be left behind empty-handed. I would ask whether they will then have to become a state to gain a respectable place in the European Union? That is an incitement to separatism. Secondly, we want the full integration of the countries that are going to become the European Union with us. Should we then, however, not do more so that the populations of these countries actually become involved? I hear the complaint for example that very many people are unable to find European Union documents available in their own language. However, I want to focus more attention, because that was yesterday’s debate, on the circles of partner countries that we have to develop. I think that this debate about the expansion of this second circle is of fundamental importance if we wish to conduct the debate about the boundaries of the Union in a positive manner. Personally I do not believe that Europe should extend to the borders of Iraq, Iran and Syria, but we do have to be able to offer Turkey an attractive partnership. At the moment this is something we are really talking too little about. Then there is our role in the world. Peace and development currently involve more than simply the follow-up to Johannesburg. As long as Europe is more part of the problem of poverty than part of the solution, then, Mr Nielsen, we have to place a big question mark by all the good things we undoubtedly do. Because we know that as long as we engage in agriculture, as long as we engage in trade as we currently do, we are more part of the problem."@en1

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