Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-04-Speech-3-111"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-06-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU-United States summit2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080604.20.3-111"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-06-04-Speech-3-1122
lpv:speaker	lp:Anneli Jäätteenmäki2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2006-11-28--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Suomen Keskusta (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; FEMM (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3 vice-chair; AFCO (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; SEDE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-13--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it is important to have an open discussion forum and cooperation between the United States of America and the European Union. Commissioner Verheugen also emphasised the importance of cooperation with Congress. I too had an opportunity about a week ago to attend a meeting of the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States. This sort of contact is important. There, as obviously elsewhere, there are open discussions on difficult questions and each side certainly tries to promote the issues which relate to its own part of the world. What is clearly evident from these talks is that when the United States tries to make a case for security issues, it is very often a case of economic and trade protectionism. I agree totally with Mr Wiersma and I too regret that the EU Member States have not been treated fairly and equally when it comes to the matter of visas. When the US administration changes, hopefully the EU might speak to the United States with one voice about this, and then the Member States might all be treated in exactly the same way. Personally and finally, I would like to say that we here in Europe and everyone the world over have been following the first round of the battle for the White House. In fact, it definitely gives an excellent picture of the US democratic machine. The EU could do well to take a look in the mirror here. We talk here about selections for top EU positions. There is no open forum, let alone any very democratic process, while these posts are being handed out prior to elections. Could you imagine the most important administrative and political posts being allocated in the United States before the elections, as goes on here in the EU? In other words, we definitely have a lesson to learn from the United States in many areas, at least in issues of democracy."@en1

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