Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-03-14-Speech-3-060-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-03-14"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120314.6.3-060-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Cristian Dan Preda2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; DROI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; PETI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partidul Democrat-Liberal (2009-07-14--2013-12-08)3 substitute; Delegation to the Cariforum — EU Parliamentary Committee (2010-06-16--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2010-01-20--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; DEVE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, here we are in the second year when we have a progress report on Iceland’s accession to the EU and, frankly, progress is visible. Even though, this time last year, no negotiation chapter had yet been opened or closed, now we can speak, as Mr Wammen and Commissioner Füle said, about eleven negotiating chapters that have been opened, of which eight have been provisionally closed. In the past year, we have also been able to witness the intensification of debate in Iceland regarding the accession to the EU, rendered, among other things, by the reactions caused precisely by point 6 of the resolution we are going to vote on in a few hours. As I pointed out in my dialogue with the Icelandic media, it is natural for the European Parliament to take note of the restructuring of the Icelandic Government and express its confidence that the new government team will continue negotiations with a stronger and more sustained commitment to the accession process. Recent discussions aroused by the proposal that Iceland should adopt the Canadian Dollar or the Japanese Yen as own currency show, in fact, that the Icelandic public needs an informed debate about the pros and cons of joining the European Union. I appreciated, in this context, the intervention of Iceland’s Prime Minister, stating that, in fact, the choice lies between being a Member State with full rights of the European Union and the euro area and, respectively, giving up sovereignty by unilateral adoption of a foreign currency. I therefore conclude by stressing the importance of the debate, as both Icelandic and European citizens need to know each other and be willing to be part of a community."@en1
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