Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-10-19-Speech-2-061"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-10-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities as regards the European External Action Service - Draft amending budget No 6/2010: Section II - European Council and Council; Section III - Commission; Section X - European External Action Service - Amendment of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Communities and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of those Communities (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20101019.5.2-061"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-10-19-Speech-2-0632
lpv:speaker	lp:Adrian Severin2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, there will be no successfully united Europe without a far-sighted vision of how our common interests must be promoted outside the borders of the Union at global level. Such a vision will not last without an ambitious, accountable, efficient and ‘communautarian’ External Action Service. Such a service will not function effectively without staff recruited on the basis of merit. I believe most of us can agree on these principles. The devil is, however, in the detail. And it is precisely these details, which have transformed a report that was meant to be technical into a source of passionate political debate, which risks dividing us deeply. There is no dilemma between ‘communautarianism’ and intergovernmentalism, between merits or quotas, between old and new Member States. Nevertheless, the triumph of ‘communautarianism’ requires that each and every national of each and every Member State feels fairly treated on the basis of their merits. The triumph of the merit criterion must be tested by the equilibrium of the results of the selection, since God, I believe, distributed merits and sins in a balanced way to men and women, old and young, small and big, weak and powerful, westerners and easterners, etc. The fact of the matter is that some in our Union – mainly but not only among the new members – feel they are discriminated against. Even if this perception were wrong, we should still treat it with respect and care since our unity is of the utmost importance. It is not the criteria which are being questioned, but the insufficiency of guarantees that they will be properly enhanced, and of corrective measures to be applied when imbalances are obvious. I can only hope that the High Representative will correct the imbalances in the process which apparently fuelled these perceptions, and I also hope that a future European diplomatic academy, or something similar, will help us to create a corps of European diplomats who are competent and loyal to our common interest and to the European institutions."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2009-09-16--2011-03-22)3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partidul Social Democrat (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFCO (2009-07-16--2011-03-22)3 member; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 vice-chair; S&D (2009-07-14--2011-03-22)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Adrian Severin (S&D )."1
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