Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-09-01-Speech-1-184"

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dcterms:Date	"2008-09-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Georgia (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"hu"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080901.20.1-184"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-09-01-Speech-1-1852
lpv:speaker	lp:Péter Olajos2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; BUDG (2007-02-13--2009-07-13)3 member; ENVI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3 unknown; Magyar Demokrata Fórum (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Georgia – the illusion of freedom? We all know that the Georgian-Russian war is not about Georgia. My fellow Members know, and the Heads of State or Government meeting in Brussels today know, that they are debating the possible sanctions. In the midst of our work for ever closer integration of the European Union, the Georgian-Russian conflict has come like a bolt from the blue to remind us that force makes decisions even in the 21st century. Over the next seven years, Russia may spend 190 billion dollars on arms and on developing its army. It will not be afraid of deploying its army, updated using the dollars from oil and gas – August 2008 was proof of this, at least. As a Hungarian who was once forced to be a citizen of the Russian empire, it is especially difficult for me to draw this conclusion. Russian menace lives, and has already penetrated our everyday consciousness, not only through energy prices but also in the image of columns of tanks filing into Georgia. At the same time, I trust that it is clear to my fellow Members and to those taking part in the European summit that it is not the peace of Georgia, Ukraine or Western Europe that is at stake in our current conflict with Russia. We can lay down the framework and emphases for future dialogue with a common, resolute Union response – or we will have excessively cocksure Russian foreign policy as our bedfellow. Those Member States of the Union that suffered from Soviet oppression twenty years ago know what this danger means, whatever ideological form it may be dressed up in. The leaders of the new Member States therefore have a moral responsibility to protect their voters from the increasing external threat."@en1

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