Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-06-12-Speech-3-037"

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dcterms:Date	"2002-06-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation of European Council (Seville, 21/22 June 2002), including situation between India and Pakistan2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020612.1.3-037"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-06-12-Speech-3-0382
lpv:speaker	lp:Proinsias De Rossa2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I welcome the reference to the Treaty of Nice in Paragraph 6 of the joint resolution. It is an important confirmation by Parliament that Nice is necessary to facilitate a successful enlargement process. I want to speak directly to the Spanish President-in-Office at this point. The Seville European Council is important for the many reasons outlined in our resolutions here today. However, without the stepping stone of Nice, much of that will be in vain. You must therefore ensure that the Seville conclusions at least include a declaration that Nice does not in any way modify the Irish policy of military neutrality, currently defined as non-membership of mutual defence pacts. I would also urge that this declaration be accepted as a protocol to the next Treaty changes in 2004. I know that Nice does not impact on Irish neutrality. However, considerable anxiety has been created in Ireland by irresponsible scaremongering on this issue by people fundamentally opposed to European integration, people like my colleague in this Parliament, Mrs McKenna of the Green Group, and the ethnic nationalists of the Sinn Fein Party in Ireland. The provisions of Nice are part and parcel of the ground rules on which the candidate countries are negotiating their membership of the Union. Ireland's failure so far to ratify these ground rules serves only to strengthen the anti-European Union sentiment in the candidate countries, to the detriment of all Europeans. I am also concerned at the grandstanding by some Member States, which are resisting the budgetary commitments needed for the successful development of the accession countries' economies. The public at large does not understand the tactical manoeuvring behind these battles. What they see is a penny-pinching attitude, driven by an accountancy approach to politics, rather than the statecraft our citizens are crying out for. If Seville shows some generosity from our political leaders, our citizens will emulate that generosity in return."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"De Rossa (PSE )."1

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