Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-02-01-Speech-3-252-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-02-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU foreign policy towards the BRICS and other emerging powers (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120201.16.3-252-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-02-01-Speech-3-253-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Paulo Rangel2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; EPP (2009-11-25--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-30--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partido Social Democrata (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; AFCO (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; JURI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I shall begin by congratulating the rapporteur, my colleague Mr Saryusz-Wolski, on drafting this report. I believe that it is an important element of setting out an EU foreign policy strategy, so I hope that the Commission and, in particular, the Vice-President/High Representative will be able incorporate the vision that the rapporteur has presented here into their strategy. As a Portuguese Member, I particularly welcome the door being opened – although that is as far as it has gone – to the creation of a European Parliament delegation to Brazil, as it is incomprehensible that all of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have their own delegation, except Brazil. This is interesting because it is the only country out of Brazil, Russia, India and China whose national language is a European language, and which has a clearly Western, Atlantic and European culture, giving it a unique affinity to us. It also has a key role as an example for the other BRICS in the area of human rights and, we might say, international action. It is also incomprehensible that Parliament, unlike the Commission and the Council, has not created a delegation for Brazil. The Commission and the Council have an alliance, a strategic partnership with Brazil, but we in Parliament still do not have a delegation to Brazil – largely because of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament – and cannot monitor Brazilian policies. We can monitor economic affairs in Mercosur, but we cannot monitor the international policy positions of Brazil because we do not have a dedicated delegation to the country. This is a total failure on the part of Parliament, and I hope that it will be rectified following the great vision shown the Saryusz-Wolski report."@en1
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