Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-02-16-Speech-4-060-000"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-02-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin - Regional Convention on pan-Euro-Mediterranean preferential rules of origin (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120216.6.4-060-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-02-16-Speech-4-061-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Gianluca Susta2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2013-03-12)3 member; INTA (2012-01-19--2013-03-12)3 unknown; - (2011-04-28--2013-03-14)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2013-03-12)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2009-09-16--2013-03-14)3 substitute; BUDG (2012-01-19--2013-03-14)3 member; S&D (2010-10-06--2013-03-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the political importance of the convention under discussion today will be clear to everyone. The European Union is well consolidated, but a further process of integration within the confines of Europe and between Europe and the rest of the world on its borders is a prerequisite for strengthening this region in the new global balance of power. Once again, a modern framework for trade relations may be a useful point of compromise between those who believe that Europe should primarily have an Atlantic vocation and those who believe that a new balance of power in the Mediterranean is essential for building a democratic future for Europe. This convention brings together in an improved multilateral, if interregional, logic, all the different positions currently in force concerning the origin of goods traded with the participants in the Barcelona Process, the EFTA States, the Faroe Islands and all of the Balkan States participating in the Stabilisation and Association Process. By adopting a legal instrument of this kind, it will be easier in the future to have recourse to the pan-Euro-Mediterranean system of cumulation of origin, and therefore agree on preferential tariff treatment for Mediterranean goods, although the absence of a review clause and uniform provisions for the settlement of disputes must be lamented. Precisely for this reason, the convention may be an important element to help revive a process which began in Barcelona almost 20 years ago and to which various initiatives refer, some more convincing and effective than others, but all of them important, such as the Union for the Mediterranean, the trade road map agreed under the framework of that process. Ours is an ambitious goal, but a slow-moving one due to the imbalances that are still too strong between the two shores of the Mediterranean, the political instability that is still crossing the Middle East – which requires greater effort from the European Union to push Israel to respect the international agreements on the Occupied Territories – and on account of the uncertainties linked to the evolution of the Arab Spring in North Africa. These are all major outstanding issues, which require a strong political and diplomatic initiative from the European Union."@en1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph