Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-01-15-Speech-3-207"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-01-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The Northern dimension2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030115.11.3-207"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-01-15-Speech-3-2082
lpv:speaker	lp:Eija-Riitta Korhola2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Suomen kristillisdemokraatit rp (2001-05-30--2004-07-19)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3,3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the motion for a resolution on the Northern Dimension properly underscores some of the most important issues of the present time. The Northern Dimension, however, has to be seen as a dynamic process. I should particularly like to highlight two factors that will have an impact on this: enlargement and the environment. With enlargement our concept of the ‘north’ has to change so that by the end of the decade we will use it to mean more the Arctic north and less the ‘north’, in the sense that varies depending on who the speaker is. With enlargement too the role of the EU in the Baltic Sea will alter significantly. In practice the Baltic from the start of next year will be an internal sea of the EU. With its problems and opportunities it must be generally visible in EU policy. The prominence given to the Baltic Sea in all EU policy must increase, whilst at the same time its importance as part of the EU’s Northern Dimension lessens. Naturally, Russia in the future will be an important part of Northern Dimension content, but west and east are close together at the Arctic Circle. The Northern Dimension will also enable ties to the west to be strengthened. The EU should take the decision to join the Arctic Council, whose members are currently the United States of America, Canada, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. It would be odd if the EU were to continue to be left out of the work of this Council, which was established in 1996, especially as so many of the EU’s own projects, if associated with Arctic Council projects, could result in important synergies. At the same time it would strengthen Euro-Atlantic mutual understanding in the area of the environment, which recently has not been the best possible. EU policy on climate change could in this way obtain a new basis internationally on which to build practical action. The vulnerable Arctic regions will be the first to suffer from climatic change, and before long that change will have an effect throughout the entire EU, extending as far as the Mediterranean Sea. It is obvious that the melting of the ice caps implies a likely threat, which, if it were to become a reality, would in practice totally devastate Europe’s culture and economy."@en1

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