Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-01-18-Speech-3-398"
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"Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased that Mr Tannock’s outstanding report on the European neighbourhood policy has been written. It offers practical answers to problems that the EU must solve if it is to appease the anti-globalisation doom-mongers. It is simply not possible with every round of EU enlargement simply to shift the lines of latitude and longitude on the map of Europe and to mark out our territory in the sand; the same sand, incidentally, in which one may always bury one’s head, rather than face the problems of the world around us, including those of the EU’s neighbours. It is precisely this phenomenon, in my view, that the report addresses and attempts to solve. The European neighbourhood policy is about the offer of privileged relations between the EU and its nearest neighbours, supported by financial instruments such as TACIS and MEDA, which are to be replaced by the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument in 2007.
On the other hand, however, the EU often seems unaware that it should not claim the right to dictate to neighbouring countries what they should and should not do, on the grounds that it is providing them with financial support, and I am not afraid to say this. We are not talking here about irresponsible or inferior countries and this is something that the Union often forgets, in its sometimes arrogant navel-gazing. The EU must fully respect its neighbours and not attempt to put pressure on them. This is the only way in which we can talk about good neighbourhood policy."@en1
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