Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-05-10-Speech-2-011"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-05-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Financing the trans-European transport network2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050510.2.2-011"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-05-10-Speech-2-0122
lpv:speaker	lp:Willi Piecyk2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; PECH (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2008-08-01)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2008-08-01)3 unknown; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (2004-07-20--2008-08-01)3 member; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2008-08-01)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, the trans-European networks present us with a glaring discrepancy between their general importance, which Mr Schmit has just underlined, and the extent to which they have been realised. It is for this reason that we are running the risk, where the trans-European networks are concerned, of making permanent the trans-European nuisance that we have had for some years now. Let me remind you that building the trans-European networks is a task given us by the Treaty of Maastricht. They are not something that we simply came up with; they are a matter of obligation, an obligation into which we jointly entered. Throughout the time that I have been working on them – starting with the Christopherson group, and most recently in the high-level representatives’ group under Karel Van Miert – the outcome has always been a great deal of hot air, but little of any real substance, and little in the way of projects. Even in the days of the Christophersen group, we were told that the projects were all ready to go ahead, that they were a practical proposition, and that the excavators could start work tomorrow. Not much actually happened, though. I would also like to remind you that last year, in May 2004, the Council and this House specified completion dates for the projects. If it turns out that these completion dates cannot be met, I would hope that the Council – and by that I mean not the Council as a whole, but the Member States – will say that that is not what they want, that they cannot go along with it, and that the projects cannot be completed. It is at that point that we will have to abandon the projects. So, in this matter, let us have more courage, more commitment and more honesty from the Council, and if what we have heard today – that the presidency, Parliament, and the Commission endorse the budget appropriations for the Financial Perspective – is a promise, then that is a statement with which we are very comfortable."@en1

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