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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-11-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Explanations of vote2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20121122.31.4-299-750"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-11-22-Speech-4-300-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Bruno Gollnisch2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; ECON (2012-09-05--2013-01-16)3 member; TRAN (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Front national (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; NA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Japan (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"This report is very disappointing. If the recommended accession criteria had been adopted, in particular the condition concerning prior resolution of conflicts, then Turkey would never have been invited to open negotiations and Cyprus, which it occupies militarily, would not be a Member State. However, that is almost an incidental point, because, if I understand the sense of this report correctly, enlargement has become a policy in its own right, almost enough in and of itself, which is supposed, in some cases, to compensate for shortcomings in diplomacy or for the political instability of an immediate neighbour. It looks rather like caution is being thrown to the wind, as has always been the case prior to the strengthening of Brussels’ powers by a new treaty. It also looks like a hope on the part of pro-Europeans that there is a critical size above which their utopia would be ‘too big to fall and to fail’. The only idea worthy of the slightest consideration is the proposal of an ‘associate member’ status. However, I fear that in the rapporteur’s mind, this would be a status aimed more at Switzerland and Norway than at Turkey."@en1

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