Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-11-Speech-2-165"

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dcterms:Date	"2003-03-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The neighbours of the enlarged Europe: a new framework for relations with the neighbours to the east and south2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20030311.8.2-165"2
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lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, we have just had an extremely interesting discussion in the Commission in which the leitmotif of most of the contributions - the strongly-held argument of most of those who spoke - was that it was absolutely imperative that we give the question of the relationship with our new neighbours the priority which in the past we have given the whole process of enlargement; that, in other words, it becomes part of everybody's responsibility to promote the concept of an institutionalised ring of friends to whom we can offer ways of sharing in our security, stability and prosperity. The honourable Member will see from the communication we are publishing today the practical ways in which we try to give expression to this notion. It is not easy. We have tried it in the past. To some extent it has been like the philosopher's stone; we have never quite found a way of expressing our views about our neighbours that does not involve offering them all membership of the European Union. That is not the subject of this communication. However, the honourable Member will see from our proposals that we have put forward sensible and concrete ways in which we can encourage our neighbours, both on our land and our sea borders, to share in our market, to share in our policies, not to share in our institutions but to share in the prosperity and political stability which have been the hallmark of the European Union. The simple answer to his question is that there is no disagreement. The Commission believes that this is a responsibility for the whole Commission and that responsibilities will have to be shared between us."@en1
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