Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-04-09-Speech-3-108"

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dcterms:Date	"2003-04-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030409.4.3-108"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-04-09-Speech-3-1092
lpv:speaker	lp:Harlem Désir2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the United States (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I voted in favour of assent but abstained on the Brok report. This was because of the ambiguous nature of the wording concerning independence of the foreign and defence policies of a future enlarged Union from the United States. The institutional and financial provision for enlargement is not good. There is a real risk of losing ground as regards political integration, and financial programming is patently inadequate. Our own shortcomings cannot, however, justify our holding 10 nations hostage as we struggle with the Council, nor can they justify our slamming the door against the prospective entrants. More than 10 years have passed since the fall of the Iron Curtain. It is now our historical duty to welcome these countries into the Union. We alone are responsible for the delay in institutional reform. Following the unsatisfactory Treaty of Nice, the backlog made it necessary to convene the Convention in order to give Europe a constitution at last. At the earliest, the latter will be adopted after a short IGC in the wake of the Convention, and before 1 May 2004. There should be no mistake about what is at issue today, however. We are not taking decisions on institutional matters or financial perspectives. We are saying yes or no to entire peoples taking up their rightful place in the Union. We are deciding the future of peoples whose historical fate it was to be excluded from the process of building a democratic Europe for half a century. From now on the new entrants will fight alongside us for the future of the Union. They have to help us stop drifting towards a free trade area and set our course towards creating a high quality social model. They will join us in the struggle for a political Europe able to speak with one strong voice in the world. They will work with us on a constitution allowing interested countries the freedom to establish a joint foreign and defence policy, thus breaking new ground for Europe."@en1

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