Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-11-21-Speech-3-365-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-11-21"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20121121.25.3-365-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-11-21-Speech-3-366-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Cristian Dan Preda2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; DROI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; PETI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partidul Democrat-Liberal (2009-07-14--2013-12-08)3 substitute; Delegation to the Cariforum — EU Parliamentary Committee (2010-06-16--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2010-01-20--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; DEVE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to congratulate Ms Koppa on an excellent report. I wish to highlight the good timing of this report, 20 years after the Copenhagen European Council that adopted the accession criteria for enlargement and in the midst of the latest economic crisis. It is useful to remind ourselves of how both the European Union citizens and the citizens from candidate or potential candidate countries have benefited from the European Union’s enlargement. As underlined by one of the amendments to the resolution, enlargement has had a significant impact, not only on candidate states, but also on the European Union as a whole. Enlargement is always an opportunity to better define the identity, objectives and policies of the European Union. It is also an opportunity to better communicate these to the European citizens. As the rapporteur for the accession of Iceland, I regret that the enlargement process focuses almost exclusively on the Western Balkans and less on the other candidate or potential candidate states. Commissioner Füle and I have just returned from visiting our Icelandic colleagues. The report is not particularly relevant to them. I also wish to express my profound disagreement with paragraph 38, which introduces a new category, that of European Union associate members. I believe that the enlargement policy reflects the openness of the European project, which is meant to unite all European countries in an ever stronger Union. I will end by highlighting the enlargement potential of countries such as Moldova, which, while geographically European, can only accede if they implement all of the reforms needed to allow them to join Europe politically too."@en1
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