Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-11-19-Speech-3-186"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-11-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:A New Framework for Relations with our Eastern and Southern Neighbours2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031119.7.3-186"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-11-19-Speech-3-1872
lpv:speaker	lp:Per-Arne Arvidsson2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-10-24--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-10-23--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Moderata samlingspartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we are now in the middle of the greatest ever enlargement of the European Union. In a year or so, Bulgaria and Romania will join, and membership negotiations are being entered into with Turkey and Croatia. This has given rise to increased interest in the EU in the world around us. We can expect new applications for membership and new requests for close cooperation in the future. I think we should be proud of this interest in participating in European cooperation. It also means that we can support, and make demands upon, surrounding countries so that they respect human freedoms and rights, comply with the principles of the state governed by law and observe basic economic principles of free trade. I personally do not understand the talk of European borders now needing to be defined. The EU must, in the future, be open to new members from our part of the world, irrespective of whether or not they follow old school maps’ demarcation of the European continent. With modern technology and telecommunications, the Bosphorus, Gibraltar and the Caucasus are becoming evermore imaginary frontiers, while, in other parts of the world, freedom, human rights and democracy – and, naturally, their opposite, oppression – are becoming evermore real for us all. Moldova is a small and poor country in the EU’s future border area. I believe that a proposed stabilisation pact comprising Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova would not be a successful solution. Moldova belongs historically and culturally to South-Eastern Europe. It is my hope that the Commission will try to establish a form of cooperation with Moldova that takes account of this and opens the way to future Moldovan membership of the EU once Romania and Bulgaria have joined."@en1

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