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dcterms:Date	"2012-11-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Enlargement: policies, criteria and the EU’s strategic interests (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20121121.25.3-366-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-11-21-Speech-3-367-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Kristian Vigenin2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Coalition for Bulgaria (2009-07-14--2013-05-28)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2013-05-28)3 substitute; ENVI (2012-01-19--2013-05-28)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2009-09-30--2013-05-28)3 chair; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-30--2013-05-28)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2013-05-28)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2013-05-28)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2013-05-28)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, this is really an excellent report. We have discussed this a number of times in the Foreign Affairs Committee with colleagues from Member States and with colleagues from enlargement countries and I think that we have produced a really remarkable result, and I congratulate Mrs Koppa for all the work she has done. The report details the achievements and the shortcomings of the enlargement process and there is also an assessment and a number of recommendations on how it should go on. Enlargement however is not a technical process and we often forget this. This is a very political process. I must say that Mr Füle, the Commissioner on Enlargement, has made history these last three years making this processes credible enough and carrying the stick and the carrot hoping to unlock and unblock: to unlock internal political situations; to unblock bilateral issues. And all this must be very irritating sometimes; at least it is for me to see when countries or political parties do not see the bigger goal, the bigger idea behind that process. You have invented a positive agenda on Turkey and a high-level accession dialogue for Macedonia. I wonder what the next bright idea is just to keep the process going while countries block each other. Looking at the technicalities we sometimes forget the dream about a united Europe; we forget about the great ideas of peace, solidarity, mutual support, cooperation and dialogue. We talk only of criteria, requirements, benchmarks, indicators, roadmaps – let us talk also about why the European Union was born. Why the unification – what I call unification and not enlargement in 2005 and 2007 – has happened and has taken place and why this cannot be completed without the Western Balkans. My time is running out but I would really like to call on the Council, particularly, but also the Commission and the Parliament, to make sure that in the next seven-year period there will be enough financing for the enlargement process and that we make sure that this process can continue successfully and we do not fight over words in the trialogues which are in front of us and taking place right now but that we think about the big idea and make compromises for the future of our Europe."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Kristian Vigenin,"1 "on behalf of the S&D Group."1
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