Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-05-14-Speech-3-047"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-05-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Iraq2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030514.1.3-047"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-05-14-Speech-3-0482
lpv:speaker	lp:James Nicholson2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, we have to recognise that the relationship between the European Union and the United States is at an all-time low. I believe that over the coming months we have a role to play in this Parliament, along with the Council and the Commission, to rebuild that relationship. When we recognise the great need there will be to rebuild Iraq, we must also recognise the tremendous need to rebuild the relationship between the European Union and the United States. We have to face up to the truth. The truth is that we have grown apart. Each of us has focused on different priorities and, in many ways, we have ceased to understand each other's concerns. After the attacks on the Twin Towers on that terrible day in 2001, the United States concentrated on terrorism: where the next attack was coming from, homeland security. In Europe we went on to bring in the euro and concentrate on enlargement. To some extent we have lost track of what we have been trying to do. We have both retreated to hurling insults at each other across the Atlantic. Now is the time for each of us, on both sides of the pond, to take a step back and allow things to calm down. We must begin to rebuild that relationship. We have far too great a common bond. We share common values. We must not allow recent events to continue, or ferment or destroy us. Yes, it will take time and no doubt it will be difficult. There will always be disagreements between us and the United States. Let us hope that those disagreements, in the future, will only be in the WTO, over steel or on trade. Those are natural disagreements, which we can have. But let us begin a renewed, an improved, deeper relationship and one that will not crumble as the last one did."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Ulster Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2004-07-19)3 chair; Delegation for relations with the United States (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Nicholson (PPE-DE )."1

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