Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-12-Speech-3-177"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-02-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Iraq2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030212.5.3-177"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-02-12-Speech-3-1782
lpv:speaker	lp:Gerardo Galeote2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Popular (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we are glad that the European Council has been called, as my Group has demanded. I imagine that the Greek Presidency will be holding very intense contacts in order to propose a common position, because intentions are not sufficient. But it did not take this crisis to demonstrate that one of the gaps that reform of the Treaties must confront is the lack of instruments to promote the common foreign and security policy. In fact, it is now exactly two years and seven months, Mr Nielson, since the Commission committed itself to adopting an initiative to respond to Parliament’s proposals on common European diplomacy. We are still waiting. Meanwhile, the Member States have taken positions. I believe that the Franco-German axis is very positive in terms of promoting European integration, but with 15 Members, and particularly with 25, nobody, by definition, can assume they speak for the European Union, and neither do I believe – as some do – that the European identity must by definition be in opposition to the United States. At this point the European institutions should take concrete initiatives – and I have not seen any – within the framework of Euro-Mediterranean relations, because the danger does not come from Islam but from the Iraqi regime, and also, despite all the difficulties, initiatives to re-launch the battered Middle East peace process. And since there has been reference to European history, that history shows that complacency, the failure to meet responsibilities in relation to despotic dictators, for whom expansionist ambitions are intrinsic, may be more comfortable in the short term and also more popular – there were no opinion polls in 1938 but now there are – but sooner or later they cost us dearly in terms of freedom and human lives."@en1
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