Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-06-12-Speech-3-224"

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dcterms:Date	"2002-06-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Enlargement of the Union2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020612.5.3-224"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-06-12-Speech-3-2252
lpv:speaker	lp:Guido Podestà2
lpv:spokenAs	member; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; European Parliament (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Forza Italia (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to start by congratulating Mr Böge and Mr Brok and the other Members who helped to produce these reports. They are important reports with which I identify. I have also listened with great interest to what Mr de Miguel and Commissioner Verheugen have said. I would like to focus on the factors which might have been slightly overlooked. One of these is the approval of the Irish referendum; we must endeavour to work out what might happen in the future. If it is not approved, which I am sure nobody wants, we cannot tell the candidate countries, after all their efforts, that it was just a joke. This is undeniably an historic opportunity for Europe to be reconciled with its past. It is clear that a response needs to be found in any case and it is right that we reflect on this. The other factor is the cost of enlargement, which should be compared with the cost of not going through with enlargement. Anyone who thinks that enlargement does not involve higher costs has quite frankly not done his sums properly. Clearly, we also need to make the public understand the reasons behind some of our decisions. The issue of upstream decisions, with which our citizens are quite unfamiliar and to which they are largely opposed, was mentioned just now, and rightly so. Here, however, greater effort may be needed on the part of all the European institutions, not just Parliament and the Commission, for it is unthinkable that enlargement should be reduced to merely the opening or closure of a set of dossiers. It is a decision that must have the backing of our fellow citizens but it is an opportunity which we cannot consider rejecting if we genuinely want positive developments for the future."@en1

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