Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-09-08-Speech-4-018"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-09-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The Northern Dimension2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050908.4.4-018"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-09-08-Speech-4-0192
lpv:speaker	lp:Lasse Lehtinen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; IMCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue/Finlands Socialdemokratiska Parti (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; EMPL (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Canada (2004-09-21--2007-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Northern Dimension has served as a useful framework for cooperation across national borders and, in particular, across the EU’s external border with Russia. It has a considerable importance for this sort of cooperation between people and various organisations, and it has importance specifically for regional security, welfare and stability. The Northern Dimension should be included in all the EU’s policies and not remain a separate heading. It was good to hear that the Commissioner agrees. Whether it is a matter of the environment, health or culture, everything also has its northern dimension in the same way the EU’s policy on the Mediterranean does. The EU’s northeastern border is at least as crucially important as its border in the southern Mediterranean. The standard-of-living gap in the north is the widest in Europe. On the Russian side, the economic and health statistics are on a par with Africa. HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, drugs and alcoholism have lowered life expectancy in males to levels in the developing countries. Of the hundreds of projects, those which stand out most clearly are the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership and the Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being. The aim of the latest programme is the control of these infectious diseases and the prevention of various dangers to society in our neighbouring areas: which will be no minor feat in the future either. Mr President, the EU’s best investments in the environment and in health are still being made behind Finland’s eastern border, and it is on that border that the interests of the whole of the EU are being watched over above all by the Finns."@en1

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