Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-11-Speech-2-253"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Economic and Monetary Union2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030311.10.2-253"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-11-Speech-2-2542
lpv:speaker	lp:Johannes Blokland2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; ChristenUnie - Staatkundig Gereformeerde Parti (2002-03-18--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 co-chair; EDD (2001-01-30--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in this joint debate on a number of reports, we are discussing the progress of Economic and Monetary Union, a Union that exists by the grace of compliance with agreements made. The Stability and Growth Pact is an agreement, an agreement that we must hold one another to. The words that Mr Trentin writes about the Stability Pact in his report are worth reading. He says that even in periods of economic recession the pact must be adhered to closely and I am in complete agreement with this. Nor must we now go back on that. Likewise Mr Garcia-Margallo y Marfil rightly says that the European leaders at the forthcoming spring summit must dispense with vague and self-satisfied declarations and must speak plainly. Clear agreements about the way in which we wish to achieve the economic objectives remain necessary to comply with the pact even in this period of recession. I am therefore greatly amazed when it appears once again that France is unwilling to comply with the agreements made. Last Thursday it again became clear that this Member State would make no attempt to put its 2003 budget straight. Where Germany, Portugal and Italy are trying to put their budgets right within the agreements made, France, on the contrary, does not even express its intention finally to give account for the agreements made. Let me conclude, Mr President, by saying that if this Parliament wishes to make a serious contribution to policy-making in the economic field, then it is high time that we summoned the Member States and politicians that are unwilling to comply with these agreements to this place to give account."@en1

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