Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-06-18-Speech-1-144"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-06-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU economic and trade relations with Russia (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070618.16.1-144"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-06-18-Speech-1-1452
lpv:speaker	lp:Robert Goebbels2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Parti ouvrier socialiste luxembourgeois (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; ECON (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CONT (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with India (2007-03-16--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, since we know that geography has ordained that the European Union and the Russian Federation be neighbours, we have to see to it that these two political entities make their neighbourhood policies as cooperative as possible. In the opinion of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, the Commission is very much to be encouraged to negotiate with Russia with a view to concluding a regional free-trade agreement in line with WTO rules. Our Parliament is up in arms about Russia’s failure to ratify the Energy Charter or the transit protocol, yet Norway has not ratified these instruments either, so they will not enter into effect, and hence the relevance of a new strategic partnership agreement with Russia, on which, however, Poland, under the Kaczynski brothers, is standing in the EU’s way, something that is made all the more unacceptable by the fact that the need for a common energy policy is becoming more obvious from one day to the next. Because of the Polish veto, the EU risks missing a good opportunity to embark on negotiations that might produce results to the benefit of both sides. Europe will become more dependent on Russian gas and oil, while the Russians, for their part, are in need of solvent customers since they will not be able to pipe their gas to Asia until 2012, when the Asian gas pipeline currently under construction is likely to be put into service. Moreover, half of Russia’s budget is dependent on earnings from the energy sector. Finally, Russia is in enormous need of investments in its energy sector in order to meet increasing demand. All the conditions for a balanced agreement are therefore in place, but it is the Polish Government that is preventing any further progress in this matter, and this state of affairs will prompt the various Member States of the EU to sign more bilateral agreements with Russia, with both the EU itself and Poland losing out in equal measure."@en1

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