Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-02-26-Speech-4-016"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-02-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU-Russia relations2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040226.1.4-016"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-02-26-Speech-4-0172
lpv:speaker	lp:Catherine Lalumière2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-07-29--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; European Parliament (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; PES (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Parti radical de gauche (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, the draft recommendation presented by our rapporteur after the draft was amended and supplemented by the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy is a document that I endorse and have no difficulty in voting for. I will not reiterate here all of the many points raised in the text. Mr Belder’s work was extremely thorough, in line with the Commission communications and Parliament’s previous resolutions on Russia. I will therefore limit myself to addressing two aspects contained in the report. The first is the lack of consistency between the governments of the Member States on this matter – a lack of consistency and a lack of coordination. When dealing with such a large and difficult partner as the Russian Federation, it is intolerable to hear EU ministers, even prime ministers or Council presidents, expressing differing opinions, for example on the painful war in Chechnya or on President Putin himself or on the elections. Such differing opinions, sometimes expressed only a few hours apart, weaken the Union and damage the credibility of its efforts to have a common foreign and security policy worthy of the name. The second aspect I wanted to mention is also a lack of consistency, but this time between the Union’s different actions with regard to Russia. Our partnership and our strategy have many facets, which are reviewed in the report, but it all needs to be put in perspective with priorities and much more consistency. It is true that the EU and Russia have set themselves the long-term aim of creating a common economic space, a common space of freedom, security and justice, a common space of cooperation in the field of external security and a space of research and education, including cultural aspects. That is all very well, but once again it needs to be done consistently, which will require a great deal of determination, organisation and know-how: in other words, we still have a long way to go."@en1

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