Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-10-03-Speech-2-201"

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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	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001003.5.2-201"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-03-Speech-2-2022
lpv:speaker	lp:Michl Ebner2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; AFCO (1999-01-24--2000-11-14)3 unknown; Südtiroler Volkspartei (Partito popolare sudtirolese) (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-09-01--2002-01-14)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-06)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I am pleased to be able to make my two-minute contribution to this hotch potch of a discussion, which, given the time of day – and I intend to spend one of my allotted minutes on making this criticism – certainly underlines how little regard we have for the importance of the issue. It is simply disgraceful that we are debating the enlargement and expansion of the European Union – which affects 100 million people – at midnight. We ought to stop and think whether it is right for our parliamentary debate on this issue to be treated as if it were a kind of afterthought. It is little wonder that the people beyond these walls do not give us the respect and attention befitting a Parliament, when that is how we behave. I will now use my second minute to talk about Slovenia. I am delighted that the report has turned out to be so positive and that Slovenia – and as leader of the delegation I was able to check this out repeatedly, and in fact the Commissioner was there with me on more than one occasion – has made truly enormous efforts to fulfil the criteria. There are certainly still a few things to be done and there are still a few issues that need to be clarified. After all, the Copenhagen criteria are not just something static that countries have to achieve once and then keep to; they are to be used, or rather, applied on an ongoing basis. We in the European Union also undertake regular checks as to whether human rights are being upheld in the proper manner everywhere. In this sense, it is a process of development, which we follow attentively, but we hope that Slovenia will continue to hold this positive position and that it will be in the first group."@en1

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