Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2015-07-08-Speech-3-380-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2015-07-08"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20150708.29.3-380-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2015-07-08-Speech-3-381-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:David Coburn2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, I find myself agreeing with my colleague and esteemed opponent, Geoffrey van Orden. This report seems to be extremely windy and very worthy, but I am afraid that it does not have any practical or sensible solutions to the Middle East. Quite frankly, I think the European Union should not be involving itself in this matter. It should be left very much to the great powers and to NATO, who can better deal with it. One of the things I find interesting about North Africa is that the countries we have not interfered with, such as Morocco, have a stable government and an emerging democracy. The more we keep out of interfering in those affairs, the better. But what we should be concentrating on is the threat from ISIS coming across the Mediterranean from North Africa. We should not be encouraging people to come across. We should try to stop that. There are far too many woolly words about people and refugees. This must be stopped for the good and safety of Europe, or we will have even more problems being imported into Europe itself. We should also stop arguing with Russia. With Russia we have a common enemy in a medieval, religious conflict which, quite frankly, we do not want to be part of. Russia has a similar problem in its southern republics to the one that we have. I think we were better off cooperating with Russia rather than fighting with Russia. At the moment, all the European Union seems to do is squabble with Russia over Crimea, which is not at all sensible. Let us leave that out. Let us be friendly with Russia. Let us try to make sure we do something sensible in the Middle East and not carry on the sort of nonsense we have been doing up until now."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; ITRE (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3,3 member; PECH (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3,3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"David Coburn (EFDD )."1
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