Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-04-09-Speech-3-237"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-04-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Security and defence – priorities and deficiencies2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030409.5.3-237"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-04-09-Speech-3-2382
lpv:speaker	lp:Charles de Gaulle2
lpv:spokenAs	member; NA (2001-10-03--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Front national (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in the words of a French humorist, everything is in everything, and vice versa. The supposed European Union is a total failure in terms of economic growth and employment. The rapporteur is in favour of a defence architecture that would quite simply reduce France to the status of Belgium or even lower! Unfortunately, he seems to have forgotten that he is a General in the French Army. This is of course the objective relentlessly pursued by all those who, for various different reasons, think that the concept of a ‘Europe as a Power’ can be used to re-start the process of European integration that is in such a sorry state. The Iraq war should however make all these people realise that nations are cold-hearted monsters who only care about their own interests. Allow me to recall the recent setbacks concerning the European transport plane. It could easily have been built in a much shorter timescale and at a much reduced cost. We have witnessed the hard bargaining over the Galileo project and the huge cost of manufacturing all types of arms on a multinational basis. There are also the problems faced by the tens of thousands of workers whose jobs are under threat. All this is of no importance to politicians. They are only concerned with staying in power for as long as possible. An enlarged Europe needs to be stable. This stability will not be achieved however by establishing more legal devices, impossible cooperation, incompetent bodies, false powers and pretence. Regardless of our current differences on the situation in the Middle East, all eurosceptics will, without exception or reserve, fight against this fanciful notion of a ‘Europe as a Power’."@en1

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