Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-01-18-Speech-3-402"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-01-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Neighbourhood Policy2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060118.24.3-402"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-01-18-Speech-3-4032
lpv:speaker	lp:Ioannis Varvitsiotis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CULT (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; LIBE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 unknown; Nea Dimokratia (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I too wish to thank the Commissioner and the rapporteur, Mr Tannock, for their integrated positions. There is no doubt that the European neighbourhood policy is a successful policy. However, the time has come, I think, for us to consider whether it perhaps needs to acquire an institutional basis. My proposal is specific and refers to the following: all these states which are today taking part in the European neighbourhood policy should form a commonwealth, an improved version of the British Commonwealth. In this way, the European Union would create around it a large zone of peace, freedom and prosperity. In this regime, in this commonwealth, customs union will be valid for all the countries, but citizens will not be free to relocate to the countries of the European Union or to participate in the Community decision-making institutions or the single currency. This special relationship will offer economic and other advantages in sectors such as infrastructures, energy, the environment and transport, which will constitute incentives for joining the commonwealth. The institution of the commonwealth may develop into a valuable reserve solution in the event that the full integration of a country into the European Union encounters serious obstacles. It could also be the way in which the countries on the periphery of Europe will converge more quickly with Europe. It would create a zone of European-orientated countries and would resolve once and for all the dilemma between the constant enlargement and the deepening of the European Union. At the same time, it will deflate in good time many of the problems within Europe and will head off new dilemmas and new polarisations in the Union before they damage its unity. It will unite us and will strengthen us at the same time, without any significant cost and with far less risk."@en1

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