Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-05-14-Speech-3-138"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-05-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:New Neighbours Initiative and The Wider Europe (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030514.7.3-138"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-05-14-Speech-3-1392
lpv:speaker	lp:Ioannis Souladakis2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in one year, the European Union of the 25, and later of the 27, will have new neighbours, but it will also keep old neighbours. A debate on the new environment is both useful and necessary. From this point of view, the position of Commission President Prodi, that the European Union must look on all new neighbours as friends and associates is absolutely correct. This position must become the position of all of us, peoples and governments alike of both the 25 and the 27, and that is because, in certain cases, sometimes overt and sometimes concealed, opposition is being expressed on the basis of historical atavism or by reviving past antagonisms and/or enmities. In all events, we do not need divisions, we do not need new iron curtains, we do not need new cold war fronts. We must look on many of our new neighbours as potential candidates for integration into the European Union or, in any event, as associates and friends. Any perspective must, however, express the free democratic will of each nation. On the borders of Europe, following enlargement, interesting tasks are under way, tasks that are often of wider geopolitical and strategic interest, including for countries which are not located in this area, which means that they intervene in developments. From the Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, Russia, the western Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East, the other side of the Mediterranean, peoples expect a great deal of the European Union, of us. We must respond positively to these expectations. Now as regards the boundaries of Europe, I should like to add to what Mr Volcic said about the Caucasus, that right back in antiquity, in the ancient Greek tragedy of Prometheus Bound, it says that this is where the gods tied up Prometheus in order to punish him for giving man fire, that is to say the first elements of modern civilisation."@en1

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