Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-10-26-Speech-3-174"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-10-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation for the next informal European Council2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051026.17.3-174"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-10-26-Speech-3-1752
lpv:speaker	lp:Françoise Grossetête2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2007-02-14)3 substitute; ITRE (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, when we listened to Mr Blair’s speech in June, we said to ourselves that everything was going to change. In reality, it has taken Mr Blair four months to present us with proposals, proposals with which we cannot fail to agree because, in any event, they are already part of our own plans. When he talks about research and development, energy, training, immigration controls and the challenge of democracy, there is nothing new in Mr Blair’s proposals. It is nothing but empty rhetoric. From one grand speech to another, Europe in crisis is slowing down, while the world is moving very quickly. Thank you Mr Blair! Mr Blair’s Presidency is an absent one, a Presidency that makes no proposals. So, in concrete terms, what progress has been made since July? I have looked everywhere, but I have not yet found any measures that respond to the expectations of the citizens. There has, it is true, been the opening of negotiations with Turkey, but the citizens of Europe did not really want that ... In June, Mr Blair lamented the fact that only two of the top 20 universities in the world are in Europe, but what has he done in practice to change that? Mr Blair stated that research was the cornerstone for remaining competitive. We totally agree, but what are his specific proposals? What is he actually going to do to stop the brain drain? Finally Mr Blair, what have you done to make Europe more popular? We do not want Europe to be sacrificed on the altar of government stinginess! A budget on the cheap will never be accepted in this Parliament; and it is not a question of exchanging the British rebate for the CAP, but of finally giving Europe the means to match its strategy. We cannot build the European Union with nothing but dreams and grand speeches. I am afraid that Mr Blair has paid too much attention to Shakespeare who said that ‘ambition … rather makes choice of loss than gain which darkens him’."@en1

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