Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-11-28-Speech-3-116"
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"Mr President, from a geographical point of view, Europe has been clearly defined and its borders established. In a political context, however, the term Europe has become synonymous with the enlarging European Union. On the one hand, not all European countries belong to this organisation, yet on the other, most Members of the European Parliament are pressing for the admission of non-European countries like Turkey.
When discussing Europe’s future it is important to consider its roots and fundamental values. There are thousands of documents referring to European values. The latter are not always clearly defined, however, not even in the Charter of Fundamental Rights debated today, for example. When all is said and done, European roots are Christian, and those fundamental values were defined long ago. Constant efforts to define the obvious lead to distortions of proportion. They also affect the potential for responding to the real problems of the old continent, such as the worrying ageing of Europe’s population, migration, aggressive competition from Asian countries, terrorism, epidemics, new diseases and also energy security."@en1
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