Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-03-10-Speech-1-092"
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"en.20080310.17.1-092"2
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member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3,3
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"The Americans' 2008 tactic of divide and rule sets the pattern in transatlantic relations. But more than anything else we should realise that ultimately we have only ourselves to blame for this. This time the Czechs were the first to be targeted and the first to yield. Last Thursday the Commission was unable either to deny or confirm that European law and rules had been contravened. How bizarre is that? When are Member States going to realise that each of them, to a greater or lesser degree, is a voice crying in the wilderness?
In political dealings with the rest of the world and thus with the US it is crucially important that Member States should speak with a single voice. Transatlantic relations are indisputably very important, but none of the EU Member States – however loyal – is ever going to become the 51
state of the US union. This has to stop. The ball is in Europe's court. And quite frankly I am furious that the Council is not represented here in the House at the moment. That shows a total lack of understanding of what urgency means."@en1
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