Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-02-01-Speech-3-243-000"

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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120201.16.3-243-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Boris Zala2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with South Africa (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; SMER-Sociálna demokracia (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; DROI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, there has been a very lively debate on the BRICS countries. It shows that this is a challenge for us – not just for Parliament, but also for the European Commission and our foreign service. Our lively debate was firstly on the issue of whether the BRICS is a real economic or political-economic grouping, or just our abbreviation for a collection of countries with very strong and dynamically developing economies. The debate on this was very lively. I personally believe that the BRICS is not an integrated grouping, and that we should not approach it as a single political unit – even though it is true that the BRICS can produce an unified viewpoint, for example in the United Nations. However, we should not overestimate this aspect. We must put far greater emphasis on the creation of bilateral partnerships – strategic partnerships - between the EU and the individual countries which we abbreviate into the BRICS, because these countries really are historically very different from each other. They are totally different countries, not just historically, but also in a practical geopolitical sense, and in their economic development. Ultimately, however, we reached a compromise in this lively debate, agreeing that we must keep an eye on the BRICS so we do not lose sight of it as a partner, and that the EU must also develop strategic partnerships with large economic and political or geopolitical units such as Brazil, India and China, and so on. In my opinion, we ultimately came to a decent compromise – over the need to develop both instruments. This is proof of the fact that none of us had our heads in the sand in the end, and if we did then we have pulled them all out."@en1
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