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The
European Union,
a major actorin
the 21st-century
world: strenghtening
regional integration
, confronting global
challengesand domesticating
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THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER 2000
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Mr
Jaroslav CHLEBO,
State Secretary
for European
Affairs, Slovak
Ministry for
Foreign Affairs,
Slovak Republic
Intervention
: 'EU enlargment
as response
to the challenges
of the third
millenium'
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The artificial
line splitting
Europe in two
blocks has de
facto disappeared
with the collapse
of Communism
- Europe can be
unified neither
through a common
ideology nor through
a hegemonic approach;
the main common
principles are
freedom, democracy
and the rule of
law
- Europe has proved
that there exists
a great economic
potential and
this continent
is globally recognized
as an economic
power
- Europe will
gradually take
over a greater
responsibility
for the security
on our continent
- With globalisation
and explosion
of world population,
we are facing
new challenges:
environment, pollution,
infrastructure,
high unemployment
- We should pay
close and undivided
attention to the
situation in South-Eastern
Europe; next wave
of enlargement
to South-East
Europe
- New role of
national states
in time of globalisation
and integration;
the system of
national institutions
should be incorporated
in the EU system
- Institutional
reform will enable
the new enlargement;
the EU will get
more competencies
and more and more
decisions will
be shifted from
unanimity voting
to qualified majority
voting
- Slovakia, after
the ten years
of freedom from
totalitarian regime
like each post-communist
country can already
make the choice
and decide whether
it is worthy to
undergo hard and
painful reforms
in order to count
among democratic
and prosperous
countries in the
new millennium. |
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