Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-04-13-Speech-3-274"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-04-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Foreign policy / Security2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050413.20.3-274"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-04-13-Speech-3-2752
lpv:speaker	lp:Paul Marie Coûteaux2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Mouvement pour la France (2004-07-20--2005-10-04)3 substitute; DEVE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, one minute and thirty seconds is much more than I need, given that the vast subjects dealt with in this portmanteau report presuppose the existence of a Minister for Foreign Affairs, a diplomatic service and a common foreign policy. Yet as far as the common foreign policy is concerned, we have only the vaguest of vague outlines, given that it was decreed in 1992 by Title Five of the Treaty of Maastricht. Moreover, there is no common policy and there cannot be a common policy, for the very good reason that there is no agreement between the principles, the traditions, and interests and, therefore, the policies of our different nations, starting, moreover, with the vital issue of our relations with the United States of America. As for this minimum condition, the creation of a common diplomatic instrument, it presupposes the adoption of the European Constitution. Well I am very sorry to have to tell you – though to most people it is no secret – that it is highly likely that this project will never see the light of day and that all your scaffolding, constructed as it is on the complete absence of popular legitimacy, will collapse of its own accord. I could, therefore, stop there and not exhaust my speaking time and your nerves, but I should not like to prevent you from dreaming, because your dreams are of great interest to the advocates of sovereignty who are currently campaigning in France and elsewhere. When, at our meeting, we tell French people that in Washington there is a person who is known by the pompous title of Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, they are highly amused. When we tell French people that the said Constitution will bring with it a so-called Minister for Foreign Affairs, and that the holder of that office will be, as if by chance, a former Secretary-General of NATO, then the French people are even more amused, or intrigued, or scandalised. By all means then, ladies and gentlemen, you Europhiles and Euromaniacs of all kinds, please carry on supplying us with such amusing arguments."@en1

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