Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-04-12-Speech-2-200"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-04-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Applications for accession of Bulgaria and Romania2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050412.27.2-200"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-04-12-Speech-2-2012
lpv:speaker	lp:Georgios Karatzaferis2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-21--2007-09-25)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-09-25)3 member; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Laikos Orthodoxos Synagermos - G. Karatzaferis (2004-07-20--2005-11-23)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2007-09-25)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, is the question which arises whenever new countries join merely numerical and financial? In other words, is it only a question of cost, deficit, growth and production or is it also a cultural question? Is it perhaps also a social question? Romania and Bulgaria clearly do not have the European rate of growth or social justice. They lost forty-five years, which we signed away when we sent them to the Soviet Union. Roosevelt and Churchill both put their signatures alongside that of Stalin. We therefore owe them forty-five years' backlog in social development and economic growth. We must now therefore give them back what we owe them without grumbling; we must stretch out our hand and pull them into European society. We owe it to the civilisation, to the culture of Europe. Let us not only look at the dry figures. Dry figures are for technocrats. Numbers do not build republics, they build banking institutions, but we here are building the European republic, the European idea. Let us therefore vote in favour, because it is necessary for the breadth of Europe, it is necessary for these new ideas with which we need to endow Europe."@en1

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