Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-07-05-Speech-2-021-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-07-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Review of the Hungarian Presidency (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"cs"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110705.5.2-021-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-07-05-Speech-2-022-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Jan Zahradil2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Presidents (2011-03-08--2011-12-12)3 substitute; DROI (2009-07-21--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Občanská demokratická strana (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; DEVE (2009-07-21--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; INTA (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 chair; PECH (2011-03-08--2011-12-12)3 substitute; Delegation to the Cariforum — EU Parliamentary Committee (2010-09-08--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commission President, Prime Minister, Hungary surely deserves recognition for the way it has handled the Presidency, and I would particularly like to mention here the Secretary of State, who spent many long hours with us. After Slovenia and the Czech Republic, it was the next new Member State to take the Presidency of the EU, and it did not have an easy ride. In internal politics, Hungary faced, for example, an unprecedented shock to the eurozone, while in the area of external relations it faced unprecedented social and political changes in North Africa and the Middle East after decades of stability, and these were challenges that would have tested the nerves of far more experienced players. It is also necessary to applaud the fact that Hungary maintained internal political stability throughout the Presidency, unlike my own country, where the opposition irresponsibly toppled the government during our Presidency, thus harming my country’s image within the EU. I would nonetheless like to register one complaint, not about the Hungarian Presidency but rather about the overall role of the new EU Member States, which is also reflected in the performance of the Presidency. I do not entirely agree here with Prime Minister Orbán, as I took the view that the expansion of the EU into Central and Eastern Europe will give the Union new dynamism, new impulses and new experiences. In my opinion, that has not happened yet. In my opinion, the new Member States very quickly settled into the comfortable trajectory of the old hands, with everything which that entailed, including the European jargon and the federalist ideology, and the Presidency of the EU increasingly becoming a kind of technical-organisational exercise in administration, and not a matter of political leadership. I dream of a day when a Prime Minister will rise from this place and say: ‘We need a new European paradigm, we cannot continue with a 50-year-old, dysfunctional, obsolete concept of European integration. We must look for a new concept.’ Of course, when someone like that is found, Mr Cohn-Bendit will boo him and call him anti-European, but I am quite sure that, outside on the streets, the citizens and voters will applaud him."@en1
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