Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-06-13-Speech-3-046"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-06-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation for European Council (Göteborg 15/16 June 2001)2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010613.1.3-046"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-06-13-Speech-3-0472
lpv:speaker	lp:Torben Lund2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-14--2001-11-29)3 unknown; Socialdemokratiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; PES (2001-05-14--2002-01-16)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I should first of all like to thank the Swedish Presidency for conducting the enlargement negotiations so skilfully and for preparing so well for the Göteborg Summit. I want to take up two subjects so that everything else is not drowned out by the referendum in Ireland. First and foremost, sustainability. I believe that getting this overall strategy on sustainability adopted will be a very positive contribution to European development. We need to see incorporated into European cooperation a compulsory system for integrating environmental considerations into all areas, something which will happen with the Sixth Environmental Action Programme as the environmental pillar for the strategy during the next few years. As we specified in Parliament’s decision, sustainability must be seen in a global context. At the moment, there are no other powerful parts of the world, outside the EU, which are in a position to take on that role, and I therefore hope that the presence of President Bush, who is perhaps the least sustainability-minded of all, will paradoxically make the EU more strongly united regarding this task. And now a couple of words about enlargement. We must be careful of rhetoric. I believe we must show respect for the decision taken in the Irish referendum. I am also listening, however, to the Irish politicians on both sides of the referendum debate who say that it was not enlargement as such that was the problem in Ireland. I therefore think it is very important that, following the referendum in Ireland, it should be clearly accepted that the enlargement negotiations can continue at the same pace until such time as a solution is found in relation to Ireland. It would be an historic mistake if, because of this referendum, enlargement were to come to grief or were to be postponed when it was not this that was the problem for the Irish people. I would therefore call upon the European Council, headed by the Presidency, to show flexibility, provide maximum support and make time for finding a solution that is satisfactory to the Irish population."@en1

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