Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-04-03-Speech-2-047"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-04-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:2002 budget guidelines/ Financial perspective2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010403.3.2-047"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-04-03-Speech-2-0482
lpv:speaker	lp:Per Stenmarck2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-07)3 unknown; Moderata samlingspartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 chair; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I feel it is exceptionally important that the budget guidelines should address important and major issues. We have in actual fact undertaken to receive new countries as Member States in time for the European elections in 2004, and most of us are probably agreed that this is a great and historic commitment of ours and something which should also be reflected in the Budget guidelines. In my view, that does not emerge clearly enough in the section relating to the Commission. Our commitment to those countries now negotiating for membership means that those countries which fulfil the Copenhagen criteria in the negotiations are also entitled to become Members. There is obviously a significant degree of uncertainty built into this. We do not know to which countries this will apply, or how many of them there will be. Nor, to relate the issue to Mrs Buitenweg’s budget guidelines, do we therefore know how many new languages will have to be interpreted and translated from and into. That point is worth emphasising. The future I am describing is just three years away from us. The enlargement process does not only entail a commitment with which the applicant countries must comply, but also a commitment with which the EU must comply. In this connection, I believe there are two things which must happen with immediate effect. The first thing is that the Commission must come back with calculations of the budgetary consequences of different permutations of the enlargement process, depending upon which, and how many, countries are concerned. The other thing is that we can no longer put off the language issue but must be completely serious about getting to grips with it. Mrs Buitenweg’s guidelines are excellent in the way they address the issue. I assume, therefore, that it will also be vigorously pursued in the course of the year."@en1

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