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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-11-29"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Debate on the future of Europe (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20061129.9.3-039"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-11-29-Speech-3-0402
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, Mr Prime Minister of Ireland, if I were an artist and I was asked to draw the future of Europe, I would use black paint. We are following in exactly the footsteps which destroyed the Holy Alliance, in other words the previous unified Europe two centuries ago. We may have laws in Europe, but we have no national conscience. We may have capital but we do not have sufficient development. We may have industry, but we have no energy. We may have a great deal of land, but we have no borders. My question is: who here can tell me where the southeast borders of Europe are? They are flexible. There are two problems: energy and the guardianship of America. It is a lie that America is leading us into permanent adversity with Russia, into reservations about China and into entanglement in Afghanistan and Iran? Is it not America that distorts our vision of what is happening in the Middle East? Is it not America that prevents us from developing an independent foreign policy? That is the truth. Is there any reaction? Is there any inclination for Europe to acquire autonomy? We have a strong currency and we also have a central bank; but we do not have our own army. We can pass a constitution, but which army will defend the principles and values which that constitution will profess? ΝΑΤΟ, with its American supreme commander, Turkish chief of staff and its Canadian chairman? We need to decide. Do we want to take on the structure of a state or will we be – what we are – under the guardianship of the Americans? Apparently we have no energy. There is a great deal of oil in the Aegean. Come and get it. The American and Turkish economies do not allow that. There is oil which can resolve all of Europe's problems. So let us make an effort to be independent, to be masters of our own house, so that we do not depend on the Americans."@en1

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