Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-13-Speech-1-043"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Special European Council (23-24 March 2000 in Lisbon)2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000313.2.1-043"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-13-Speech-1-0442
lpv:speaker	lp:Lone Dybkjær2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-09-14--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Det Radikale Venstre (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2001-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I should like to thank Prime Minister Guterres for his very committed speech. I too regard globalisation and the rapid changes that are under way as the major challenges, and I also think that they will only succeed if the people of the countries concerned are involved. I was therefore very pleased with the Commission’s document for the Lisbon Summit with its two main messages. The first of these – I am tempted to say – is the usual stuff about the economy, but the second, and rather more important, is that we should reinforce the European social model by investing in people. The main message is that the individual should be at the centre of the EU’s policies. I completely agree with this main message and I also agree with what was said about social cohesion, but I should like to warn against the idea that cohesion of that kind can be created by riding roughshod over the individual countries in an attempt to create uniformity. We have our own approach in Denmark, as Jens-Peter Bonde emphasised, and other countries have theirs, as has also been mentioned. What is crucial is that the individual Member States and the EU should respect the fact that there can be different methods of solving the problems concerned. I therefore hope that, in future, matters will not be negotiated in such a way that Denmark will be forced to use its veto in connection with the intergovernmental conference and discussion of the social systems. I hope, rather, that we shall have negotiations in which each country is accorded equal status and thus arrive at results we call all support. Another reason why I am saying this is that we ought to have something on the agenda in addition to comparisons with the United States. We must never for a moment forget that our greatest task in Europe is a healing one. By that I mean we must not lose sight of the development perspective. I want to end by saying that social cohesion is to be created both in the individual countries and in Europe as a whole, but that this will not be achieved if the individual countries do not continue to be cohesive within themselves for many years to come."@en1

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