Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-12-17-Speech-1-051"
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"Mr President, I should first like to offer the praise I think is due. I am extremely pleased that the Presidency has stood by enlargement and the whole programme of enlargement, that there is a continued commitment to concrete negotiations’ beginning as from 2002 and that we are aiming to admit the first new Member States in 2004. That praise, I think, is due. However, I do not understand the way in which the leadership of the Convention has been put together. The composition is incredibly one-sided, and we have a huge need for bridge-building in this project. Where are the critics? We have had a ‘no’ vote in Ireland; we have had a ‘no’ vote in Denmark, admittedly a number of years ago; and we know that there is dissatisfaction among the peoples of Europe. Where are the critics? What has become of young people and, especially, women where this issue is concerned? When Mr Prodi was asked by Danish television what had become of women and young people, he called for honesty and said that, if the EU was to talk with government leaders, it needed men over the age of 30. If that is the attitude towards how we are to make contact with the people of Europe, then ‘thank you for nothing’ is what I say.
With regard to the anti-terrorism package, I do not understand why the aim is not to adopt an independent European stance on this issue. I do not understand why there is once again the desire to be the puppy of the United States. I do not understand why we do not concentrate much more on preventing future terrorism instead of taking the line adopted by the United States."@en1
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