Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-01-19-Speech-3-046"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-01-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Action programme of the Portuguese Presidency including the situation in Angola2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000119.2.3-046"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-01-19-Speech-3-0472
lpv:speaker	lp:Elmar Brok2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Committee Chairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-07)3 unknown; Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AFCO (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 chair; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Portuguese Presidency of the Council has a hard task ahead of it. The last two presidencies formulated objectives and arranged mandates which were perhaps not terribly extensive. You have the task of implementation. That may give you satisfaction in the end but it is a hard task which you have been set, especially the last point which Mr Sakellariou referred to, i.e. the question of implementing a European foreign and security policy. The European Parliament will support you fully in this. Of course, we are keen for it to complement NATO but we are also keen for Europeans to develop their own capacities in this area so that we can meet the challenges. You also have the task of restarting the Barcelona process, while developments in negotiations in the Near East afford totally new opportunities. I have the impression that the parties involved are now much more amenable to a European role in this area than was previously the case. I wish you and Mr Patten every success in dealing with this task. Other points, of course, are the Intergovernmental Conference and the ratio between enlargement and the European Union’s ability to act, problems relating to the risk of overstretching and the decisions which we need to take at the Intergovernmental Conference. You are bound by a mandate. On the other hand, experience has proven that when one of the parties involved tables a proposal during negotiations, it is very difficult to prevent that proposal from being discussed. In other words, practice and the possibilities granted give you the opportunity to interpret that mandate in a wide sense. I think that it would be most helpful as regards the decisions which we in the European Parliament have to take in our position, if you, for your part, undertook to interpret your mandate in the wider sense. Then we would have a better opportunity for setting out our ideas of democracy and the European Union’s ability to act on the negotiating table."@en1

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