Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-03-28-Speech-3-108-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-03-28"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Enlargement report for Turkey (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
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lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-03-28-Speech-3-109-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Geoffrey Van Orden2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, as my good friend and colleague knows full well, I am not overly enthusiastic about many aspects of the European Union, in particular political integration. But the fact is that Turkey does have an aspiration towards joining the European Union and I think Turkey’s strategic position is a very important one. Turkey has been an excellent ally for many years and we therefore need to meet her aspirations in a positive way. I have always said that, if we send negative signals to Turkey, we should not be surprised if she starts heading off in a rather different direction. Once or twice, in recent months and years, there have been one or two little indications that maybe there were feelers going out in different directions. We have to very careful about that. So I would say that of course Turkey can be a good ally without being in the Union, because that is the situation at the moment. But we need to meet Turkey’s aspirations, and what she wishes is accession to the European Union. But I hope that by the time that happens – which I hope will not be too many decades distant – we will be talking about a very different European Union to the one that we have now, and a European Union that is heading in a rather different direction to the one that it is heading in at the moment."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Geoffrey Van Orden (ECR ),"1 "blue-card answer."1
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