Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-06-16-Speech-5-043"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-06-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000616.3.5-043"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-06-16-Speech-5-0442
lpv:speaker	lp:Esko Seppänen2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Vasemmistoliitto (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; CONT (2000-05-03--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in the previous Parliament, many Members, especially from Southern Europe, were in favour of free trade in milder drugs. In the North, it is generally believed that any free trade in milder drugs lowers the threshold that makes it possible to move on to using hard drugs. It is important that the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, in the context of the positive climate that exists in Parliament with regard to drugs, also acquires sufficient resources for its anti-drugs activities outside the European Union. It would appear that this is not the case, however. The Centre is being given new tasks without the corresponding resources to carry them out, and the amendments, by the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance in particular, tend in that direction. Resources must be increased via the PHARE and TACIS programmes. The most important drug routes to the European Union area will, in the future, be Afghanistan, Russia, Chechnya and Turkey as well as Kosovo and the other former Yugoslavian regions. All the PHARE countries have to be made to go the way of Norway. And they must be given the technical assistance to do so. Estonia is one of the biggest drugs routes from Russia to Finland, and from Finland to the common markets of the EU. All countries that receive financial aid must be made to go the way of Norway. There are, at present, no conditions set for EU aid. By way of example, Montenegro receives financial and political aid from the EU to pay its police force, but not for the fight against smuggling and drugs, but for its struggle against Milosevic. No such conditions are imposed on the aid by the World Bank or the IMF. The EU should, however, impose conditions for the aid it gives."@en1

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