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"The European Commission’s Communication COM(2007) 281 set all the European institutions a challenge: ‘The time has come to look at Brazil as a strategic partner as well as a major Latin American economic actor and regional leader’. This partnership was established on 4 July 2007 in Lisbon during the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union. On 12 March 2009 the European Parliament adopted a recommendation to the Council which stated that ‘the Strategic Partnership should provide for the establishment of a regular structured dialogue between the Members of the Brazilian National Congress and Members of the European Parliament’.
Despite this statement of principle and my calls to the President of this House, I note with sadness that Parliament is sticking with the anachronistic option of making Brazil the only BRIC economy without an independent parliamentary delegation. This contradicts Parliament’s own decision and demonstrates a deplorable inertia and short-term attitude, given Brazil’s real importance in the world. I hope that future Members of this Parliament, particularly Portuguese Members, will help to change this regrettable state of affairs and establish direct and productive communication with the Brazilian National Congress.
I voted against."@en1
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