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lpv:speaker	lp:Göran Färm2
lpv:spokenAs	member; S&D (2009-07-14--2012-10-15)3 member; Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-11-11--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; BUDG (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Arbetarepartiet- Socialdemokraterna (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to thank the rapporteur, Mr Preda, for his excellent cooperation. It feels good to be able to send a clear signal to Iceland that we are looking forward to having the country in the EU family. It would be good to have a new Member State with such a strong democratic tradition and a market economy that, in fact, is now operating well. Membership of the European Economic Area and Schengen means that Iceland is already involved in close cooperation with the EU and has made a great deal of progress in its preparations for accession. It is therefore gratifying that the people of Iceland and its parliament want to complete the membership negotiations. I hope that we can now also have a constructive and serious debate on Iceland with regard to what EU membership entails. Since I am a member of the Committee on Budgets and led a committee delegation to Iceland last year, I should also point out that Iceland’s accession will not place any burden on the EU budget. In several areas, I believe that the EU could even learn a few important things from Iceland. I am thinking of Iceland’s approach to getting out of the economic crisis. The country has successfully implemented the International Monetary Fund’s recovery programme without the one-dimensional austerity measures that have, sadly, been forced on Greece, and it has successfully introduced strict measures for controlling the financial sector. I am thinking of the fact that Iceland’s membership could give the EU a more active role in the Arctic and thus help to bring about sustainable solutions in this sensitive region. I am also thinking of EU fisheries policy, in respect of which we could learn a great deal from Iceland’s more sustainable fisheries model ahead of the EU’s forthcoming reform, and of energy policy, which is an area where Iceland, which obtains almost all of its energy from renewable sources, could make a valuable contribution as a result of its world-leading expertise on geothermal energy in particular. However, we still need to have a sensitive discussion with Iceland with regard to the abolition of whaling and the sale of whale products, and there are a few fisheries and agricultural issues still to be resolved. I look forward to welcoming Iceland as a member of the EU, but I am, of course, well aware that the outcome of the forthcoming referendum on EU membership is by no means a foregone conclusion. In order for this outcome to be a ‘yes’ vote, we need, above all, a smart agreement on fisheries policy."@en1
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