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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Union Economy (1999)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000301.8.3-141"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-01-Speech-3-1422
lpv:speaker	lp:Ieke van den Burg2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partij van de Arbeid (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; ECON (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Japan (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the advantage of speaking at the end of such a debate is that you can react to what has been said before. I would like to say that I strongly disagree with Mrs Villiers’ view that this is such an interesting debate. I think that the European Parliament is doing itself absolutely no favours by thinking only in terms of old categories and churning out old political concepts and visions. It would have been much better if we had actually made the effort to reach compromises and to develop a common vision. I think that, in this way, the European Parliament is excluding itself from the discussion at the very moment that an extremely interesting development is taking place in the European Union where a very wide, socio-economic agenda is being drawn up much more clearly. The Portuguese presidency has submitted a wide agenda of this kind for the extra summit in Lisbon. The Commission has done this in its five-year plan by listing one of the four priorities. The Commission document too, which is being drafted for the summit in Lisbon, takes precisely such a wide approach which covers different areas. I think that in adopting this wide socio-economic approach, the European Union is taking exactly the right line, not least because that is the economic entity on the basis of which policy is drafted. In this light, I think that the European Parliament’s role will be limited in Lisbon, but also in the forum in June for which we might have an invitation, but are unsure as to the input we can have. Are we going to have nothing more to report than the fact that we are still stuck in a mould of old political contradictions?"@en1

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