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"Mr President, during the last plenary sitting, we voted in favour of one of the greatest ventures ever undertaken by the European Union – the accession of ten new Member States.
The challenges are not over yet, however. Our horizons are widening, our borders are expanding and the arrival of new Member States will spur the Union on further to consolidate relations with its new neighbours, such that – as I see it – in the coming years, the Union’s ability to provide its citizens with security, stability and sustainable development will depend on its desire and ability to step up and develop cooperation and dialogue with the new neighbouring countries. In this regard, the Wider Europe initiative draws our attention to the European Union’s new proximity policy, seeking to define a strategic framework for relations with the new neighbouring countries during the coming decade.
Poland is one of the countries which have now reached the eve of their
accession to the European Union, and I am the rapporteur for Poland. As such, I particularly welcome the important role that this major border country will be able to play in developing neighbourly relations with countries such as Ukraine, Belarus and, above all, Russia, as President Kwasniewski said only today.
Lastly, I had to mention the southern Mediterranean, which is of particular interest to a country such as Italy, almost all of whose territory borders on the Mediterranean Sea and which is thus a natural bridge linking the European Union and the countries of the southern Mediterranean.
In conclusion, I hope that the Council and the Commission, together with the European Parliament, especially given the impending start of the Italian Presidency, will create better geopolitical conditions for carrying through the project for a renewed Europe, a Europe which is not just politically wider but which has grown in economic and social terms too, so that countries which are different but which have common interests make up a healthy whole, despite the differences in their history and individual experiences."@en1
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