Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-10-25-Speech-3-028"
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"Mr President, there is no resolution to discuss today. But then again there were no conclusions to the summit. My point is not that such occasions are not worthwhile: on the contrary, such is the need for greater action at European level that the Union could and should have four formal summits every year, as foreseen in the Treaty of Nice.
What was on the menu at Lahti? I refer not, Prime Minister, to the artichoke soup or the grilled goose that you served at supper, proving that you can supplant
but to the EIT and the European patents, to energy security, to immigration, to relations with Russia – strategic themes which need serious reflection, but also strategic decisions which highlight the need for coherent policymaking.
What is the use of a European technology university producing innovative ideas, if as a Union we are not able to agree a quick and easy patent registration system? What is the hope for a collective climate change strategy if we are not prepared together radically to change our patterns of energy consumption and generation? And what are the prospects for a common immigration policy if we fail to devise development and trade policies to bring relief from grinding poverty and misery? Green Papers and action plans galore point the way forward but, like proverbial horses, Member States can be brought to water but not made to drink. That is why Europe is failing and that is why we need more, not less, Europe.
My group salutes President Borrell and Prime Minister Vanhanen and the other Prime Ministers who raised the issue of Anna Politkovskaya’s murder. If the invitation to President Putin and the publicity he received leaves many of us feeling distinctly ill at ease, the Finnish Presidency and the Finnish President are not to blame. The mistake was made when President Putin’s country was invited to join the Council of Europe and the G-8, before anchoring the rule of law into its culture.
Mr Putin, ‘mafia’ is not a Russian expression, but
is too often our impression of your country.
The European Union should sign no partnership and cooperation agreement with Russia until freedom, transparency and the rule of law are established, along with the legal certainty for investors that flows from them."@en1
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