Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-03-15-Speech-3-247"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-03-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2005 enlargement strategy paper (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060315.21.3-247"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-03-15-Speech-3-2482
lpv:speaker	lp:Georgios Karatzaferis2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-21--2007-09-25)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-09-25)3 member; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006-01-19--2007-02-14)3 unknown; Laikos Orthodoxos Synagermos - G. Karatzaferis (2005-11-24--2007-09-25)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2007-09-25)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the first question we need to debate is, where does Europe end? We no longer know where Europe is: we have reached Diabakir and, if tomorrow the Americans tell us that Iraq needs to join Europe for reasons of equilibrium, shall we reach the Indian Ocean? That is the question. Who decides who will join Europe? Until recently we said no to Croatia. The prosecutor, Mrs Carla del Ponte, said no, Austria put on the pressure and Croatia is in. Is this the political will of Europe? Of course, it is not very smart to have to tell our friends the Turks that they must not insult the President of the European Parliament. It is not very smart for us to take them EUR 139 million in the occupied areas and for them to pelt the members of the European Parliament with eggs and stones. They need to change their attitude, not just one article in their constitution. They cannot have this special treatment. They cannot threaten a state of Europe with war, with a while we talk about letting them in. Can they not recognise a government which has been recognised by the other 24? These are not logical formulations. That brings me to the FYROM which, of course, is claiming a name. May I remind you that, when you applied to join the UN as the Germanic Republic of Austria, Germany – at that time vanquished Germany – vetoed it and you entered as Austria? May I remind you that the Bretons did not allow Great Britain to enter because they had Brittany and they joined as the United Kingdom? So why should you not support us, when we have a 3 000-year history with Macedonia? Why do you not call a spade a spade? Why do we not have, at long last, an independent policy and have to follow the Americans' game of upsetting Russia and taking their satellites and opening up a front with Iran and so on? When at long last will Europe – and this is the question – decide that it is not the Americans' baby? We do not need prefects in order to develop our own initiatives."@en1

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