Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-09-25-Speech-2-420"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-09-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Towards a common European foreign policy on energy (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070925.35.2-420"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-09-25-Speech-2-4212
lpv:speaker	lp:Bas Belder2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; AFCO (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Israel (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; INTA (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; REGI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with India (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; ChristenUnie - Staatkundig Gereformeerde Parti (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". – Madam President, time is pressing for concrete steps to be taken towards a European external energy policy. Mr Saryusz-Wolski’s report does not push forward the Nabucco project in particular without good reason. Our Commissioner for Energy, Mr Piebalgs, eloquently dubbed this gas pipeline ‘an embodiment of the existence of a common European energy policy’. Sure enough, words must be followed by action and it is for that reason that we also greatly welcome the appointment of Jozias van Aartsen to the position of EU coordinator for the Nabucco project. The recent British and Austrian missions in respect of potential gas suppliers for Nabucco, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan also serve as evidence of European decisiveness. In any event, the positive responses from Ashgabat and Baku offer perspective. Two issues are of essential importance for an effective follow-up to the Nabucco project, the cost of which runs into billions of euros. First of all, there must be harmony between the current group holders. In short, Austrian project manager OMV must immediately discontinue its stubborn attempts at a hostile takeover of group partner, Hungarian oil and gas firm MOL. A clearly urgent task for the new Nabucco coordinator and on behalf of the EU will be for Mr Van Aartsen to also be on the alert for further attempts on the part of Russia to infiltrate this interesting energy diversification project. Madam President, in the event that the Nabucco project and similar European plans are unsuccessful, there will be insufficient energy diversification for the new EU Member States. This will result in a fragmentation of the European energy market and the diplomatic curtain will then unfortunately fall on a European external energy policy. The European institutions must never let it come to this."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Bastiaan Belder,"1 "on behalf of the IND/DEM Group"1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph