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dcterms:Date	"2006-01-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Neighbourhood Policy2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20060118.24.3-377"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Paavo Väyrynen2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; REGI (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-20--2006-12-31)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2004-07-20--2007-04-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2007-04-18)3 unknown; Suomen Keskusta (2004-07-20--2007-04-18)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is very happy with the content of Mr Tannock’s report, but we would have liked to see a few conceptual improvements to it. The Commission originally used the expression ‘neighbourhood policy’ alongside the concept of a ‘Wider Europe’. That has generally referred to the whole of Europe in both scientific and political debate. Mr Tannock’s report contains a lot of views on how to develop pan-European cooperation, including that within the framework of the Council of Europe and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, but this is not taken into account in its subheadings. We would therefore propose replacing the unfortunately worded subheading after point 30 with the words ‘Wider Europe’. The Liberal Group also proposed that the concept of the ‘Southern Dimension’ should have a place in the report. It would be a more apt description of the Union’s external relations with the south, the Mediterranean region, the wider Middle East and the countries east of that. It would be logical to speak of the Northern and Southern Dimension of Union policy at the same time. Our third conceptual suggestion was that the report ought to have contained the idea of Europe developing as a system of concentric circles, consisting on the one hand of flexible differentiation within the Union and, on the other, of the creation of functional circles of cooperation around it. This notion provides an opportunity for seeking a solution to the conflict between the Union’s consolidation and expansion. The idea received support in discussions between the groups but no one wanted to include it in this report. I wonder why not. As we did not receive sufficient support from the other groups for the realisation of this or any of our other proposals for conceptual improvements, we will not be including them in the voting sessions. We will wait until a more appropriate time to adopt them. I would like to thank the rapporteur, Mr Tannock, for his excellent levels of cooperation, and especially for having adopted our proposal to endorse the Northern Dimension in the report, and also the proposals relating to pan-European cooperation, even though this important Wider Europe concept was omitted."@en1

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