Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-11-25-Speech-3-301"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-11-25"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Richard Howitt2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, today’s debate and resolution gives the new European Parliament the opportunity to recommit itself to the further enlargement of the European Union, to note the positive developments that there are in the candidate countries, in almost every individual case, and to remind ourselves that freeing up trade, buttressing stability, improving control of our borders and expanding the opportunities for travel and free exchange for our peoples, strengthen – not weaken – our European Union. The European Conservatives repeat today that they say they favour enlargement but, at the same time, exclude it from the founding document of their new group whose official spokesperson, speaking in this debate, repeats his opposition to Turkey, thus putting them in exactly the same camp as the Far Right as we have all heard this afternoon. However, I do express my warm thanks to Commission Olli Rehn, whose good humour was reflected by his recent comment that, in future, the Directorate-General for Enlargement should not be an equal distance from either the Council or the Commission, in the middle of rue de la Loi. I appreciate his good humour and I appreciate his good judgement. I hope his legacy will be the accession of all current EU candidate countries."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Richard Howitt (S&D )."1
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