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dcterms:Date	"2012-02-16"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Jörg Leichtfried2
lpv:spokenAs	member; DROI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with India (2011-12-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Canada (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; INTA (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Cariforum — EU Parliamentary Committee (2010-09-07--2014-06-30)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; TRAN (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to begin by thanking and congratulating Mr Menéndez del Valle and Mr Moreira for their excellent work. This was a very good report and it was important to formulate a position on this situation. I believe that the Committee on International Trade has good reason to approve this regional convention. If we look back over Europe’s history, we can see that it was free trade that provided the original, informal basis for the European Union. It was free trade under social conditions – a point that should always be made in this regard – which contributed significantly to the uniting of the European Community to become the European Union and, in the final analysis, to prosperity within the European Union. If we could now succeed in developing a similar system of free trade within the entire Mediterranean region, then I am convinced that this could represent an enormous opportunity for the Riparian States of the Mediterranean to improve their prosperity and, above all, to work together in peace, something that is not always the case. It is a positive step that we have succeeded in replacing several hundred agreements with one single agreement. I believe that this will work. However, and here I take issue with the Commissioner’s answer, we should, of course, consider a more intensive form of dispute settlement. We still see that not everything is always harmonious within the European Union. That is why dispute settlement procedures really could make sense. Our aim must remain a general free trade agreement; however, we have not yet quite achieved this. As Ms Gomes has said, we cannot force anyone into this. We can only offer encouragement. However, I believe we have already taken a step in the right direction."@en1
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