Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-11-19-Speech-3-199"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-11-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The Northern dimension2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031119.8.3-199"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-11-19-Speech-3-2002
lpv:speaker	lp:Riitta Myller2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue/Finlands Socialdemokratiska Parti (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 vice-chair; PES (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would, on behalf of the Group of the Party of European Socialists like to thank the Commission and the Council for the EU’s Northern Dimension having become an ongoing and consistent part of European Union policy. Its continuity is demonstrated by the fact that we are discussing the Second Action Plan. The Northern Dimension, however, as was said earlier on, has been criticised as being shapeless and accused of lacking in anything concrete. This forthcoming programme for the period 2002 – 2006 will hopefully eliminate these problems. The programme promises to put in place a coherent operational framework for all Northern Dimension policy by creating strategic objectives and priorities. The Northern Dimension will not acquire sufficient credibility until it helps to improve the life of people in the EU’s northern regions and those areas bordering on them. This means developing the economy by exploiting the potential offered by trade and the sustainable use of natural resources. In northern regions environmental questions are also vitally important. After enlargement the Baltic will become an internal sea of the EU, and its protection will require swift action not only in the European Union but also in Russia. It is good news that the Russian Prime Minister on his visit to Finland this week gave his support to European Union efforts to discontinue the use in the Baltic Sea of single-hulled oil tankers. Environmental cooperation must be continued in order to improve nuclear safety, and wildlife in the Arctic also calls for special attention. Plans and agreements made in the area of health and social protection must also be turned into projects of concrete cooperation. The New Neighbours initiative, which was being discussed here just a short while ago, will give strength to the EU’s Northern Dimension. Added value will be afforded in particular by the new financial instrument proposed in it which, for example, will reduce bureaucracy in border cooperation. The Northern Dimension nevertheless also needs sufficient new financial resources for it to be implemented."@en1

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