newsitems French EU Minister Wauquiez to EuroFora: EU Concentric circles isn't our stance, but a Debate
French EU Minister Wauquiez to EuroFora: EU Concentric circles isn't our stance, but a Debate
The idea for the EU to advance by the method of "Concentric Circles" opens an interesting Debate, but it's not the FrancoGerman position, said to EuroFora French EU Minister, Alain Wauquiez, after meeting with his German counterpart, Werner Hoyer.
Wauquiez was replying to an "EuroFora" question on the conclusions of a Report on EU Governance, presented recently to President Sarkozy by MEP Constance LeGrip and MP Pagnol, who propose for the FrancoGerman couple to resolutey advance further in EU Integration, attracting, successively, arount it, first the €uroZone Countries, and, afterwards all the EU, (See "Eufora"s earlier NewsResports from Paris), .
- "This is not the (Official) French position !", Wauquiez immediately reacted to "EuroFora's reminder.
- t's not even the current Franco-German Strategic trend, he added, revealing that he had already spoken about that with his German counterpart, Minister Werner Hoyer, with whom he had just met at EU Parliament in Strasbourg, accompagnied by the largest Group of MEPs : ChristiianDemocrats/EPP Group's President, MEP Joseph Daul.
- Nevertheless, "it's interesting that we have now a Debate" on this and other Ideas about how EU should evolve in the foreseeable Future, the young French EU Minister concuded, smiling to "EuroFora", given that we had, precisely, suggested earlier to him that, precisey, the time seems to have come for EU Citizens and EU Leaders to open a Debate on EU's Future, with the meaning initially given to that by French President Sarkozy, (See relevant earlier "EuroFora" NewsReports)....
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EU-educated charming young Chinese presence started to be felt in Council of Europe's corridors in Strasbourg at the aftermath of an Historic Resolution adopted by its Parliamentary Assembly in favor of opening the possibility to give China a special "Status" in the PanEuropean Organization.
- "My proposal to offer to China an official status as "Observer", in short term, under conditions, was welcomed" by the CoE : "The road to Dialogue between China and the CoE has now been opened", declared after Strasbourg's debates and votes the Head of France's delegation, MEP Jean-Claude Mignon.
"Neither complacency, nor a mere condamnation of China", but a "wise approach of a political issue of great importance", advised Mignon to all those who'd either overload claims on Democracy, Human Rights or Minorities, or close their eyes to anything, there as elsewhere... A balance which was not exactly followed during debates, contrary to Mignon's personal stance, which appeared rather even-handed.
China is the only UNO Security Council permanent member which has not yet any status at the CoE, being still obliged to be represented in Strasbourg by a General Consul : USA and Canada, even Japan and .. Mexico, have already got a special Status at the CoE, following Strasbourg's decision, back in 1995, to counter-balance the accession of Russia (1996) by creating special links to traditional "Western-world" allies.
All former "Socialist" Eastern European countries started to have relations whith the CoE through its former sector on Culture and Education, before becoming full Members of Strasbourg's paneuropean organization. Speculations were unfolding recently about establishing a probable concrete link with China through the topical issue of anti-doping in Sport, on the occasion of the 2008 Olympic games.
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Compared to that, revendications of .. "Turkish" Minorities, by Turkish MEPs, this week in Strasbourg, spreading through a wide area extended ...from Greece up to China, appeared less worrying, than pittoresque...
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