Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-12-13-Speech-3-045"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Enlargement strategy and main challenges 2006-2007 – The institutional aspects of the European Union’s capacity to integrate the new Member States (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20061213.4.3-045"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-12-13-Speech-3-0462
lpv:speaker	lp:Paul Marie Coûteaux2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Mouvement pour la France - Rassemblement pour l’Indépendance et la Souveraineté de la France (2005-10-05--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DEVE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we, for our part, will also vote against this report, because it has sought to distance itself from the wise Europe of the early days, that is to say, a Europe of the Six, six Member States cooperating with each other in order to strike an Atlantic-wide balance. Those who believe in supranationality have blown their project out of all proportion by enlarging here, there and everywhere, without even knowing where their borders are. The fact is that, by demolishing internal borders and by no longer even knowing what a border is, these Euro-maniacs no longer know where to stop. Consequently, their project is not truly political because, I repeat, there can be no politics without the concept of borders. Today, these Euro-maniacs are discovering that there is still someone behind the wall, that they still need to enlarge further, because they cannot say 'No' to anyone. Here they are deprived of any constitution – let them not be under any illusions! – permanently deprived of any constitution. They are faced with a huge void, forced as they are either to give ground, that is to say to invent a two- or three-speed pragmatic Europe, which would be the most sensible option, or to launch themselves into a breathtaking headlong flight. Here they are involved with Turkey, here they are faced with new candidate countries in the Caucasus, for example: after all, Georgia is well and truly part of the Council of Europe …Why not the countries of the Maghreb, or Lebanon, the history of which is so closely associated with that of our nations? Well, let us get down to it! Since this poor Europe no longer has any structure, let us keep on enlarging it and, in doing so, let us be careful not to forget States that have been strangely sidelined – Serbia, Russia – perhaps because these countries reluctantly accept the US hegemony? That says everything there is to say, Mr President, about the failure – yes, the failure – of the so-called European Union."@en1

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