Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-10-03-Speech-2-167"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-10-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Progress towards accession by the 12 candidate countries (continued)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001003.5.2-167"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-03-Speech-2-1682
lpv:speaker	lp:Demetrio Volcic2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Democratici di Sinistra (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Slovenia has succeeded in achieving the majority of the short-term priority objectives of the pre-accession partnership and this positive evaluation is helping to provide fresh impetus for the negotiations. I am focusing on Slovenia because I have been involved in that country’s accession process and because it is a fine example of how realisation that the end is in sight can speed things up. There are only a few days to go before the Slovenian general elections. This is not the most opportune moment for it to focus on foreign policy and the interchanges between the different parties could become heated and exploitative. However, with the exception of insignificant minorities, no political group is questioning the principle objective of the Slovenian policy which is to join the European Union as soon as possible. The political line therefore remains unchanged. The speeches of all those who have contributed to today’s debate on enlargement paint a not-dissimilar picture. The report on Slovenia presents us with a problem which is also part of the Czech question, the Croatian question and the situation of other nations. However, at various different stages, always during or immediately following the Second World War, measures were adopted which do not clearly meet the Copenhagen criteria, given the prevailing spirit at the time, and yet the political and ideological architecture of the period, including the peace treaties, was founded on precisely those laws. The third amendment to the Slovenian document, for example, welcomes the Slovenian Government's intention to ascertain whether the laws and decrees currently in force, which date from 1943, 1944 and 1945, are in conflict with the Copenhagen criteria. Internal battles are being sparked off in the individual countries over these issues. While an amendment, as we said, welcomes the Slovenian Government's intention to ascertain whether the laws are in conflict with the Copenhagen criteria, the Slovenian parliament’s Foreign Policy Committee, which has decision-making power, stresses that the bases established between 1934 and 1935, upon which Yugoslavia was created, are fundamental, and requests that the Slovenian Government firmly enforce this position in its entirety, that part of the country ..."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The President cut the speaker off)"1

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