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Under optakten til weekendens parlamentsvalg mødtes MEP'er i Bruxelles med den ukrainske udenrigsminister og med oppositionens leder Timosjenko, som har brudt med Jusjtjenko, hendes tidligere allierede fra den Orange Revolution.
In the run-up to last weekend's parliamentary elections MEPs met in Brussels with the Ukraine foreign minister and with opposition leader Tymoshenko, who has broken with her former Orange Revolution ally Yushchenko.
EP-delegationen, som overvågede valget, omfattede desuden Charles Tannock (PPE-DE, England), Thijs Berman (PSE, Holland), Šarūnas Birutis (ALDE, Litauen), Rebecca Harms (De Grønne, Tyskland), Zbigniew Kuzmiuk (UEN, Polen) og Patrick Louis (IND/DEM, Frankrig).
The EP delegation which monitored last weekend's elections also included Charles Tannock (EPP-ED, UK), Thijs Berman (PES, NL), Šarūnas Birutis (ALDE, LT), Rebecca Harms (Greens/EFA, DE), Zbigniew Kuzmiuk (UEN, PL) and Patrick Louis (IND/DEM, FR).
Delegationen var del af en fælles mission sammen med OSCE, NATO og Europarådet.
The delegation was part of a joint mission with the OSCE, NATO and the Council of Europe.
Europa-Parlamentet lægger stor vægt på valgobservationer som et middel til at styrke de nationale valghandlingers legitimitet, forøge befolkningernes tiltro til valgene, undgå valgsvindel, forbedre forsvaret for menneskerettigheder og bidrage til løsning af konflikter.
The European Parliament attaches great importance to the observation of elections as a means to strengthen the legitimacy of national electoral processes, increase public confidence in elections, avoid electoral fraud, better to protect human rights and to contribute to conflict solution.
MEP'er bidrager med det særlige politiske perspektiv, med ekspertisen og med erfaringen i overvågning af valg.
MEPs provide a particular political perspective, expertise and experience in election observation.
20060328STO06809 EP presseinfo EU' s forbindelser med Ukraine OSCE Valgovervågning af parlamentsvalget i Ukraine
20060328STO06809 EP Press service The EU's relations with Ukraine OSCE Observation of parliamentary elections in Ukraine
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EU skal finde ud af, hvor meget det kan udvides med nye medlemmer
The EU must define how far it can expand with new member states
Hvor stor kan EU blive?
How large can the European Union be?
Er der en grænse for udvidelserne?
Is there a limit to its enlargement?
Og hvor går den i så fald?
And if so, what is that limit?
Hvis EU skal omfatte 30 eller flere medlemsstater, er det så stadig en enhed?
If the EU were to include 30 or more member states, will it still have unity?
Parlamentet tog for nylig en beslutning om fremtidige EU-udvidelser.
Parliament recently voted a resolution on future EU enlargements.
To MEP'er giver os her deres holdning: Elmar Brok (PPE-DE, Tyskland), som er formand for Udenrigsudvalget og har forberedt beslutningen, og Jan Marinus Wiersma (PSE, Holland), som er sin gruppes talsmand i udenrigsspørgsmål og har skrevet en bog om EU's grænser.
Two MEPs give their views: Elmar Brok (EPP-ED, DE), who chairs EP's foreign affairs committee and prepared the resolution, and Jan Marinus Wiersma (PES, NL), who is his group’s spokesman for foreign affairs and wrote a book on the borders of the EU.
Beslutningen fra den 16. marts siger, at hvis man i EU ønsker at optage nye medlemsstater, skal man være sikker på at kunne rumme dem.
The resolution adopted on 16 March says that if the EU wants to take in new member states, it will have to be certain that it can absorb them.
Beslutningen siger også, at dette i øjeblikket ikke er muligt, fordi der efter afstemningerne i Holland og Frankrig ikke eksisterer en ny EU-traktat.
The resolution also says that at the moment this is not the case, because – after the “no's” in the referendums in France and the Netherlands – there is no new EU treaty.
Brok: Det udkast til forfatningstraktat, som blev afvist i Frankrig og Holland, var beregnet på at EU fortsat skulle kunne fungere efter en udvidelse med 10 nye medlemmer.
Brok : The draft constitution rejected by France and the Netherlands was meant to allow the EU to continue to function after its enlargement with 10 new member states.
Men landene tilsluttede sig i 2004 og der er stadig ingen forfatningstraktat.
But in 2004 those 10 countries joined and there is now still no constitution.
EU halter i alvorlig grad bagefter med hensyn til sin interne udvikling.
The EU is seriously lagging behind in its internal development.
Vi skal derfor sikre os, at EU ikke udvides for hastigt, ellers vil det politiske projekt forlise.
We must therefore make sure that the EU does not expand too quickly, because otherwise its political project will be lost.
Da EU's regeringer i 1993 fastlagde de politiske og økonomiske betingelser, som nye medlemsstater skulle opfylde for at opnå medlemskab, satte de også som et kriterium EU's egen "absorptionskapacitet" – evnen til at rumme nye medlemmer.
When the EU governments in 1993 laid down the political and economic conditions which new member states need to fulfil before joining the EU, they also set the EU’s own “absorption capacity” (its ability to take in any new member states) as a criterion.
Dette kriterium er indtil nu blevet ignoreret.
This criterion has so far been ignored.
Nu er grænsen er imidlertid nået og derfor har Parlamentet bedt Europa-Kommissionen (EU's udøvende instans) om klart at definere, hvad EU's "absorptionskapacitet" er.
But a limit has now been reached and therefore Parliament has asked the European Commission (the EU’s executive body) to define clearly what the EU’s “absorption capacity” is.
Wiersma: Jeg er enig med Brok i at vi bør være mere opmærksomme på spørgsmålet om, hvorvidt EU kan rumme flere medlemsstater.
Wiersma : I agree with Mr Brok that we should pay more attention to the question of whether the EU is able to take in new member states.
Uden en ny traktat og interne reformer som kan få EU til at fungere effektivt, vil det blive svært at sikre en gnidningsløs optagelse af nye medlemmer.
Without a new EU treaty and internal reforms to make the EU operate efficiently, it will be difficult to assure a smooth accession of new countries.
Udvidelsen med ti lande i 2004 har været en stor succes, men det er et faktum, at der nu er behov for større klarhed om, hvad EU's "absorptionskapacitet" faktisk er.
The 2004 enlargement with ten new countries has been a huge success, but it is a fact that there is now a need for more clarity on what the EU’s “absorption capacity” actually is.
Men hvis I mener, at EU allerede halter bagefter med hensyn til de interne reformer, der er nødvendige for at optage nye medlemmer, betyder det så, at EU måske stopper sin udvidelse, når Bulgarien og Rumænien er kommet med?
But if you are saying that the EU is already lagging behind in the necessary internal reforms for taking in new members, does that mean that after Bulgaria and Romania will have joined, the EU may stop its enlargements?
Parlamentets beslutning siger, at EU må holde de løfter, der er givet.
Parliament’s resolution says that the EU must keep the promises it has made.
Og EU har klart og tydeligt lovet Tyrkiet, Kroatien og Makedonien, at de kan blive optaget, når de opfylder alle kriterierne.
And the EU has clearly promised Turkey, Croatia and Macedonia that they can join if and when they fulfil all the criteria.
Der er allerede startet optagelsesforhandlinger 1 med Kroatien og Tyrkiet.
Accession negotiations 1 have already started with Croatia and Turkey.
Men igen: De skal altså opfylde betingelserne.
But again, they do need to fulfil the conditions.
For andre lande i det vestlige Balkan er der signaleret "europæiske perspektiver", hvilket betyder, at de muligvis på et tidspunkt kan opnå EU-medlemskab.
Other countries in the Western Balkans have been given a “European perspective”, which means that they may at some point become EU members.
Sådanne løfter skal holdes, også selvom det kan komme til at tage lang tid - som i tilfældet med Tyrkiet.
These promises must be kept, even if it is going to take a long time, as in the case of Turkey.
Vi må ikke glemme, at udsigten til EU-medlemskab har været den vigtigste kilde til reformer i Tyrkiet og på Balkan.
We must not forget that the prospect of EU membership has been the most important stimulus for reform in Turkey and in the Balkans.
Men det betyder, at EU så også må lave sit hjemmearbejde.
What it does mean is that the EU has to do its homework as well.
Vi må indføre de nødvendige forandringer for at blive i stand til at absorbere nye medlemsstater.
It will have to introduce the necessary changes to make it capable of absorbing new member states.
Brok: Tiden må vise, hvor udvidelserne stopper.
Brok : Well, it remains to be seen where enlargement stops.
Hvis kriteriet med EU's "absorptionskapacitet" skal tages alvorligt, kan EU komme ud for at måtte afvise et land, som opfylder alle politiske og økonomiske betingelser, blot fordi EU ikke selv er parat.
If the criterion of the EU’s absorption capacity is taken seriously, the EU will have to refuse even a country which respects all the political and economic criteria, simply because the EU is not ready itself.
Det er af den grund, jeg har foreslået en ny model, nærmest en slags "udvidet" EØS (Europæisk Økonomisk Samarbejdsområde).
It is for that reason that I have proposed a new model, something like a European Economic Area “Plus”.
Der er lande, der kan have ønske om at deltage i sådan en ny multilateral ordning, fordi det kan vare længe, inden de kan optages rigtigt i EU, eller fordi de måske slet ikke ønsker at blive optaget.
Countries may want to participate in such a new multilateral structure because it may be a long time yet before they can actually join the EU, or because they will never be able to join or because they do not wish to join.
For de pågældende lande vil det have den store fordel, at de aldrig efterlades tomhændede.
For the countries concerned there will be the huge advantage that they will never be left empty-handed.
Optagelsesforhandlinger er for øjeblikket en "alt eller intet"-proces: Et land kan forhandle i årevis, men til syvende og sidst er det knald eller fald – der er ingen mellemvej.
Accession negotiations are now an all-or-nothing process: a country may negotiate hard for many years, but in the end it is either yes or no and nothing in between.
Og risikoen for at få et nej er blevet større nu, hvor nogle medlemslande har varslet folkeafstemninger om alle fremtidige udvidelser.
And the risk of a no has become greater now that some countries have said they will have a referendum on all future enlargements.
Lande med udsigt til medlemskab må selv afgøre om de vil benytte en handelsordning som et foreløbigt skridt eller ej.
Countries with an accepted membership perspective must decide themselves whether they want to use this option as an intermediate step or not.
Wiersma: Jeg er enig i, at en ny multilateral ordning kan være et godt alternativ til fuldgyldigt EU-medlemskab for de lande, som kun har udsigt til at blive optaget langt ude i fremtiden eller måske slet ikke.
Wiersma : I agree that a new multilateral structure could be a good alternative to full EU membership for countries which may only be able to join in the far future or even not at all.
Lande som Ukraine og Moldavien kunne have fordel af det.
Countries such as Ukraine and Moldova might benefit from it.
Men sådan en mellemløsning må ikke påvirke de forpligtelser der er indgået overfor Tyrkiet og lande i det vestlige Balkan.
But such a half-way house must not affect the commitments which have been made to Turkey and countries in the Western Balkans.
De er i gang med et forløb, som skal ende med fuldt medlemskab, også selv om det i de fleste tilfælde vil vare mange år endnu.
They are engaged in a process which is intended to end in full membership, even if in most cases that will take many more years.
1 Den proces, hvor ansøgerlandet indfører EU's lovgivning
1 The process with which candidate members adopt all the EU laws and implement them in their own country.
2 EØS blev indført først i 90'erne som et samarbejde mellem EU og medlemmerne af EFTA heriblandt Norge, Østrig, Island, Finland og Sverige, for at give disse lande mulighed for at deltage i det indre marked uden at være medlemmer af EU.
2 The EEA was set up in the early nineties between the EU and member countries of the EFTA, including Norway, Austria, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, to allow these countries to participate in the internal market without having to join the EU .
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20060329STO06821 EP resolution on 2005 enlargement strategy paper Europa website - Activities of the European Union - Enlargement
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Åbning af mødet
Opening of the session and changes to the agenda
EP-formanden Josep BORRELL indledte mødet med en kort erklæring i anledning af anholdelsen af Liberias tidligere præsident, Charles Taylor, der nu bliver stillet for en domstol for krigsforbrydelser i Sierra Leone.
EP President Josep BORRELL opened the session by informing MEPs of the arrest of the former President of Liberia, Charles TAYLOR, who has now been transferred to the custody of the special court in Sierra Leone.
Formanden mindede derefter om, at afstemningen om EP-mødekalenderen for 2007 finder sted onsdag.
The new Liberian President has been invited to address the House, and I hope this will happen soo n.”
Mødekalenderen 2007
Highlights of the week
Formanden henledte derefter opmærksomheden på, at afstemningen om EP-mødekalenderen for 2007 finder sted onsdag kl. 11.30.
On Tuesday MEPs will debate economic guidelines for the EU and the Commission will unveil their revisions to the Services Directive.
Han tilføjede, at Rådet har anmodet om, at forslaget om en fiskeriaftale mellem EU og Marokko bliver behandlet som en hastesag, idet aftalen helst skal træde i kraft allerede til maj.
MEPs gather for their April Strasbourg plenary session to deal with issues from the opening of labour markets to the new Member States, and to the future of the Middle East after the Israeli elections.
Desuden har Kommissionen anmodet om hastebehandling af et forslag om at yde økonomisk støtte til landmænd, der lider et økonomisk tab som følge af fjerkræinfluenzaen.
The major debates of Monday evening focus on trans-European energy networks and on measures to increase the openness and transparency of the EU institutions in general and the Council of Ministers in particular.
EP beslutter tirsdag morgen, hvorvidt hasteproceduren skal anvendes.
Michael CASHMAN 's (PES, UK) report on public access to EU documents will be part of this latter debate.
I givet fald kan afstemningen om de to forslag finde sted torsdag.
MEPs will also debate progress on the WTO talks and the state of EU competition policy.
Ændringer til dagsordenen
The report by Alain LIPIETZ (Greens/EFA, FR) on competition policy (2004) will be the second point on the agenda.
Der blev i øvrigt foretaget en del mindre ændringer til dagsordenen.
The third item on the agenda will be a debate and Commission statement with resolution on the situation regarding refugee camps in Malta.
Afstemningen om Őry-betænkningen om arbejdstageres frie bevægelighed blev udskudt fra tirsdag til onsdag for at give PSE-gruppen lejlighed til at afslutte en intern debat om betænkningen.
There will also be a debate on the transitional arrangements restricting access for workers from eight of the countries who joined the EU in 2004 to the labour markets of many of the ‘ old ’ EU 15.
Ligeledes på forslag fra PSE blev det besluttet at gennemføre den samlede debat om bedre lovgivning (fire betænkninger af hhv.
The afternoon session will focus on the ‘ better lawmaking ’ agenda, including a report from Arlene McCARTHY (PES, UK) on internal market legislation.
Frassoni, Doorn, McCarthy og Gargani) som planlagt, men at udsætte selve afstemningen til næste samling.
The report by Diana WALLIS (ALDE, UK) on the request to defend the parliamentary immunity of Witold Tomczak will be taken without debate and the vote will take place on Tuesday.
Debatten finder sted torsdag kl. 15.00.
He will then join President Borrell for a joint press conference.
Endelig foreslog PPE-DE-gruppen at udvide debatten om situationen i de irakiske fængsler til også at omfatte situationen for det syriske mindretal i Irak.
The EU's High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana , will participate in the discussion on the Middle East.
Denne debat finder ligeledes sted torsdag eftermiddag.
Two more reports from Michael CASHMAN (PES, UK), this time on identity checks at the external borders of the Schengen area, will be voted on Thursday.
Større åbenhed i EU-institutionerne
Improving transparency of the EU institutions
EP ønsker større gennemsigtighed og åbenhed i EU.
Openness and transparency of the EU institutions
Derfor har det i dag godkendt to betænkninger med det formål dels at sikre offentlig adgang til møder i Rådet, dels at sikre retten til offentlig indsigt i EU's dokumenter.
The European Parliament takes action to ensure transparency and democratic scrutiny of the EU institutions.
EP har godkendt en betænkning af David HAMMERSTEIN MINTZ (Verts/ALE, ES) og støtter dermed en henstilling fra Den Europæiske Ombudsmand, Nikiforos Diamandouros (GR).
In two reports adopted Tuesday, MEPs call for the Council to meet in public when it is acting as a legislator, and requests the Commission to revise existing rules and to table new legislation by the end of this year on "the right of access" to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.
Ombudsmanden har sat spørgsmålstegn ved Rådets begrundelser for at nægte offentligheden adgang til møder i de tilfælde hvor Rådet optræder som lovgivende myndighed.
How can the European Union talk about transparency and the need to close the gap with its citizens if it fails to apply the most basic rules on public access to the EU institutions' documents?
EP støtter Ombudsmandens indstilling og kræver mere åbenhed i Rådet med henvisning til EU-borgernes ønske om mere gennemsigtighed i EU.
The European Parliament came out in favour of revising existing legislation to ensure that debates in Council and all preparatory documents on legislative procedures are available to the public and easily accessible.
Det er ikke kun princippet om mere åbenhed der er til debat.
Transparency and democratic scrutiny of the institutions are crucial to ensuring public trust in the Union itself.
En øget åbenhed i Rådet vil også lette Europa-Parlamentets kontrolfunktion.
Responding to this concern, Parliament, in a non-binding report by Michael Cashman (PES, UK), adopted a package of recommendations calling on the Commission to revise the existing rules and to table new legislation by the end of this year on " the right of access " to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.
EP mener, at de fremgangsmåder, der benyttes til at transmittere Rådets samlinger er utilstrækkelige til at garantere den nødvendige åbenhed, og at det er bydende nødvendigt, at repræsentanter for offentligheden og medierne får faktisk adgang til møderne;
Firstly, the amended regulation should require access to be granted to all preparatory documents linked to a legislative procedure --including the opinions of legal services-- and also to the records of the Council debates where these institutions are " acting in their role as legislators " and to the identity of the author of each initiative.
Offentlig adgang til dokumenter
MEPs want to prevent documents being classified as confidential " as a matter of routine, simply because they refer to an issue which is or might be relevant from a security point of view ".
Samtidig godkendte EP en betænkning af Michael CASHMAN (PSE, UK) og kræver dermed en ændring af den nuværende EU-lovgivning omkring offentlig adgang til institutioners dokumenter.
Finally, the European Union should limit the right of Member States to restrict access to their contributions and amendments in co-decision and other legislative procedures, say MEPs.
Lovgivningen blev vedtaget i 2001, men betegnes nu af flere MEP'er som værende for svag.
The existing EU legislation on public access to the institutions' texts was the fruit of lengthy negotiations between Parliament and Council before its adoption at second reading in 2001.
De argumenterer for, at gennemsigtighed og åbenhed er selve forudsætningen for at skabe folkelig tillid og opbakning til EU.
MEPs feel today that the final formulation has proven too vague as far as access to EU documents and Council activities is concerned.
Klare regler For det første skal den ændrede forordning sikre adgang til alle forberedende dokumenter, der relaterer sig til den lovgivningsmæssige procedure.
The report, by David Hammerstein Mintz (Greens/EFA, ES), backs a call from the European Ombudsman for the Council to review its refusal to do so.
Derudover skal den sikre åbenhed omkring debatterne i Ministerrådet, hvor ministrene "agerer i deres funktion som lovgivere".
MEPs consider it unacceptable that the EU’s most important law-making body still meets behind closed doors when acting as legislator.
Endelig skal den eksisterende lovgivning modificeres således, at det fremgår mere tydeligt hvilke dokumenter, der skal klassificeres som fortrolige.
The say the Council should respond to calls for greater transparency coming from parliaments, civil society and the general public.
Det sidste tiltag er for at undgå en rutinemæssig stempling af alle dokumenter som fortrolige.
Parliament says that it is indispensable that representatives of the public and the media are given access to the meetings.
Eksisterende lovgivning utilstrækkelig Den eksisterende lovgivning om offentlig adgang til EU institutionernes dokumenter var resultatet af langvarige forhandlinger mellem Parlamentet og Ministerrådet i 2001.
The House point out that the second paragraph of Article 1 of the EU Treaty obliges the institutions of the EU to take an approach of openness and closeness to the citizen during their decision-making processes and that any deviation from this principle would have to be based on very specific and strong reasons.
EP føler i dag, at den eksisterende lovgivning på området ikke i tilstrækkelig grad har formået at åbne op for adgangen til EU´s dokumenter samt Ministerrådets aktiviteter.
Arguing that it is of the utmost importance for national parliaments to be able to hold their governments and ministers to account, and that meeting in public would make the Council’s work both more transparent and more relevant to European citizens, they call on the Council to take all measures needed to make the meetings in which it is acting in its legislative capacity open and accessible to the public.
Fugleinfluenza: EP godkender hasteprocedure for støtte til landmænd
EP approves urgency procedure for bird flu compensation measures
EP gik i dag med til at benytte hasteprocedurer i forbindelse med behandling af et forslag fra Kommissionen om støtte til landmænd, der har lidt økonomisk tab som følge af fugeinfluenzaen.
MEPs voted to approve the use of the so-called urgency procedure for a Commission proposal that would create a legal base for compensating farmers who have suffered from the sudden decrease in consumer demand for eggs and poultry.
Fugleinfluenzaen har betydet en voldsom nedgang i efterspørgslen på æg og kød fra fjerkræ.
The Parliament accepted the procedure unanimously.
Debatten finder sted onsdag aften i Strasbourg med deltagelse af den danske landbrugskommissær, Mariann Fischer Boel.
The subject will be debated on Wednesday night in Strasbourg, in the presence of Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel.
Tidsfristen for fremsættelse af ændringsforslag er onsdag formiddag kl. 10.00, mens den endelige afstemning finder sted torsdag.
The deadline for tabling amendments to the proposal is set for 10 am on Wednesday, with the final vote taking place on Thursday.