Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-11-Speech-2-170"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
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
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030311.8.2-170"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-11-Speech-2-1712
lpv:speaker	lp:Joost Lagendijk2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; GroenLinks (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (2002-01-08--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; ECON (2002-02-26--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I have followed the Commission President’s introduction very closely and have also read the speech he made on the same subject in Brussels in December. In both his introduction today and in that speech he vacillates dreadfully between the position that we must not entirely rule out the prospect of membership and the view that we must not initiate it either. That I understand perfectly well and that is no criticism of Mr Prodi either. There is a ring of friends in which Morocco and Russia will be treated on the same terms, in the same way. My question – it is an open question to the Commission – is whether it is not better or would be better to say in even clearer terms: ‘in this ring of friends there are friends who are ever so slightly closer to us’. Ukraine and Belarus might become members in the future for example, while we cannot imagine the same of Russia. We must be perfectly clear about this. The same applies to North Africa for example. Does that not create the clarity that these countries demand of us and is it not better to make a distinction between potential members and countries or neighbours who will never be eligible for membership?"@en1

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