Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-10-25-Speech-3-134"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001025.6.3-134"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-25-Speech-3-1352
lpv:speaker	lp:Cristiana Muscardini2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-09-10--2002-01-14)3 vice-chair; UEN (2000-09-21--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with South Africa (1999-12-16--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Alleanza nazionale (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". Summit meetings of Heads of State and Government always raise great expectations. The Biarritz Summit was heralded as the decisive Summit which would affirm fundamental rights, all rights, even rights never conceived of previously, as if the European Communities and their constituent States had hitherto lived in total chaos. And yet our countries do not appear to be the least attentive countries in the world to human rights. There is always room for improvement, of course, and democratic control must not be found wanting in this respect, but we did not feel that cataloguing these rights and including them in the Treaties should be the European Union's top priority. Moreover, even the Heads of State and Government have not been able to reach agreement on this issue, and it is to be carried over to the forthcoming Nice Summit. And yet there are so many urgent issues to be dealt with: 1) the need to define an economic policy which will rescue the euro from the stagnant depths to which it has plunged and boost employment; 2) the need to attract investment to the Union in order to break out of the economic slump; 3) the need to revise employment regulations to make the market more dynamic and more responsive; or 4) the need to define a common line for a coherent diplomatic action to safeguard peace in the Middle East, etc. All of these issues are extremely important and urgent in terms of the Union's future and the function which it ought to be performing in the world. However, as is often the case with these summits, the celebratory final declarations conceal a reality which is much more banal: the Fifteen have not succeeded in establishing a common policy and the progress made with the unveiling of rights does not take away from the need to tackle the practical problems encountered by millions of families and entire categories of producers and workers. A summit which tackles these issues would show the validity of such an institution once and for all, and would send a signal of confidence and hope to the citizens of the Union."@en1

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