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Shaping the New Europe

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Subido el 3 de julio de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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Shaping the New Europe

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Europe is a permanent building site here at the EU headquarters in Brussels. 00:00:00
Major works are underway to make room for newcomers. 00:00:29
No less than 10 new member states are joining on the 1st of May 2004. 00:00:33
Meeting rooms must be extended to adapt to the Europe of 25. 00:00:41
You will see screens on all the tables and screens in interpretation booths because the 00:00:55
distance between delegates is now so large, so big, they can't see each other from this 00:01:00
corner to the other corner. 00:01:08
So that's why there's a whole video system also in this room. 00:01:10
At the heart of the EU decision-making process, the weekly meeting of ambassadors from member 00:01:17
countries. 00:01:22
Their job? 00:01:25
To prepare the main political decisions for the EU. 00:01:26
Here old and new members sit side by side. 00:01:30
Newcomers have been well-integrated. 00:01:33
But with 25, meeting rooms had to be tightened up and speaking times reduced dramatically. 00:01:34
Spaniards we are normally quite concise and precise in our way of expressing our position. 00:01:44
But this was not the case for other member countries who had a long tradition in rhetorics. 00:01:50
This rhetorical approach now I think is completely incompatible with the numbers and it has made 00:01:58
everybody to go to the point. 00:02:06
Ten new members mean nine new official languages in the EU. 00:02:16
Documents must be translated. 00:02:20
Important meetings such as debates in the European Parliament require simultaneous translation. 00:02:23
The number of languages is evidence of the wide cultural diversity of the new Europe. 00:02:29
Channel 5 Latvian, Channel 6 Slovene, Channel 7 Estonian, Channel 8 Maltese. 00:02:38
So welcome to our new multicultural Europe. 00:02:50
This is not the first time that the European House has been extended. 00:02:57
When it was created after World War II, the then European community was always meant to grow. 00:03:04
There have been four enlargements before this one. 00:03:10
But this is the biggest ever. 00:03:13
Ten new countries boost the EU population from 370 to 450 million. 00:03:15
This is not just an expansion. 00:03:23
It is the reunification of the European continent. 00:03:25
As communism crumbled along with the Berlin Wall in the late 80s, people were no longer locked behind an iron curtain. 00:03:38
They knew they had the key to a bright new future. 00:03:46
People in the West reached out a welcoming hand to their new neighbours. 00:03:51
At a summit in Copenhagen in 1993, EU leaders set the ball rolling for new members to join. 00:03:59
But first, they said, there must be proof of stable democracies and fully-fledged market economies. 00:04:06
A decade later, ten countries were ready. 00:04:14
And again in Copenhagen, they were brought back to the Europe where they feel they belong. 00:04:19
And to our new members I say, warmly welcome to our family. 00:04:24
Our new Europe is born. 00:04:30
But what happened during those ten years? 00:04:44
It had been a daunting challenge for the countries wishing to join. 00:04:47
The complete overhaul of their political and economic systems. 00:04:50
With the help of the EU, they undertook step-by-step to catch up with their neighbours from the West. 00:04:55
Sector by sector, they reformed and adopted common European legislation and standards. 00:05:01
But the EU was not alone. 00:05:10
It was not the only EU member state. 00:05:13
It was not the only EU member state. 00:05:16
Major financial help was provided to boost economies, 00:05:20
manage the environment, improve infrastructure and reform education. 00:05:24
There were many years of tough negotiations, too. 00:05:35
Everybody was aggressive. 00:05:39
But the EU was not alone. 00:05:42
There were many years of tough negotiations, too. 00:05:45
Everybody was aggressive. 00:05:48
But there were plenty of worries along the way. 00:05:51
Would there be massive population movements from the East to the richer West? 00:05:54
Would cheap labour destabilise working markets? 00:05:58
You might have a situation where the poorer countries coming in, 00:06:02
means a redistribution of wealth and other things, 00:06:06
so that France and other places struggle a bit more 00:06:09
in terms of agriculture. 00:06:13
Agriculture led to hot debates during accession negotiations. 00:06:35
The current system of support to farmers can't be extended to the new members as soon as they join. 00:06:40
Their large farming sectors would disrupt the system. 00:06:45
A compromise was reached for a gradual introduction and so avoid a big bang. 00:06:49
There are other concerns, for example about working rights, 00:06:58
which is why safeguards were built in. 00:07:02
People will be able to travel freely, 00:07:05
but borders won't be dismantled overnight. 00:07:08
There'll be a period of confidence building 00:07:11
to give time for the new countries to settle into the new system. 00:07:14
During the process, I really became more and more aware 00:07:22
that we are really changing the future of our continent. 00:07:26
And if we did it right, 00:07:29
then we have organised something that will make Europe a safer place 00:07:33
for 450 million people, a better place, 00:07:39
and a place that gives people more opportunities and more chances. 00:07:43
It was in Athens that the final deal was signed, 00:07:52
a treaty to shape the new face of Europe. 00:07:55
So what are the real benefits of all this for the people living in an enlarged Europe? 00:07:59
Let's see what accession brought to Spain, for instance. 00:08:08
Since joining the EU in 1986, 00:08:12
Spain's per capita income increased by 15%. 00:08:15
Trade with its new EU partners grew dramatically. 00:08:19
Economic growth was spurred by EU funding. 00:08:23
Fears of massive movements of Spanish workers to other EU countries 00:08:27
proved to be unfounded. 00:08:31
Today, there are more people coming to live in Spain from elsewhere in the EU 00:08:33
than there are Spaniards moving away. 00:08:37
On the opposite side of the continent, 00:08:42
an incoming member state with roughly the same size and a similar profile 00:08:45
hopes to repeat Spain's positive experience. 00:08:49
Poland. 00:08:52
Poland is more or less of the same size, 00:08:57
and, of course, we compare Poland to Spain. 00:09:00
Maybe we have similar ambitions to play a stabilising role 00:09:04
in their respective regions. 00:09:09
Spain in the Mediterranean, Poland in the centre, 00:09:12
Eastern Europe. 00:09:16
But Poland's emergence in the EU is also a concern to Spain, 00:09:20
It's now Poland and other countries' turn to benefit from EU money 00:09:25
for regional development. 00:09:29
The Spanish, who've done so well in the past, 00:09:31
will inevitably see their part shrink. 00:09:34
There's one healthy response to this. 00:09:37
If you can't beat them, join them. 00:09:40
This is Warsaw Airport, where expansion work is underway 00:09:45
and a new terminal being built. 00:09:49
The works here are being done by a Spanish company. 00:09:51
Many Western European companies have seen investment opportunities 00:10:22
in the fast-growing economies in Eastern Europe. 00:10:26
There's no doubt enlargement will boost growth 00:10:29
and create jobs in both old and new member states. 00:10:32
Quality of life is being improved as we work together on the environment. 00:10:35
And tourism is opening up new regions for discovery. 00:10:39
But the European Union was not meant to be just about increasing prosperity, 00:10:45
but also about boosting peace and stability. 00:10:49
More security not just for the 25, but for neighbouring countries too. 00:10:52
The EU will have a stronger presence on the world stage. 00:11:00
A wide range of people and cultures are being united 00:11:04
on the basis of shared values. 00:11:07
They will bring in new traditions, new history, 00:11:12
new concepts of thinking, new ideas. 00:11:15
Peace will contribute definitely to a very diverse population. 00:11:19
These young people will live in the new Europe. 00:11:35
At the College of Europe in Natalin, close to Warsaw, 00:11:38
they're already getting a taste of wider horizons. 00:11:41
For the first time this year, I sort of travelled through 00:11:45
the Czech Republic and Slovakia. 00:11:48
And it seemed to me that these places, 00:11:51
these are places that very naturally belong to the European community. 00:11:54
For me, as a student, 00:12:08
it's possible to work everywhere in Europe, 00:12:11
to move, to travel, to install where I want, actually. 00:12:14
Bronislaw Geremek, Polish academic and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, 00:12:20
teaches history of European civilisations at the European College. 00:12:25
For him, this enlargement is a great historical moment. 00:12:29
And the story goes on. 00:12:41
As a new constitution is drawn up for tomorrow's Europe, 00:12:43
the foundations are being laid for other countries to join in 00:12:47
and share the values on which the European Union is built. 00:12:51
The European Union is a global, 00:13:00
multilingual, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, 00:13:02
multi-ethnic, multi-ethnic, multi-ethnic, multi-ethnic, 00:13:05
multinational, multinational, multinational, 00:13:10
multinational, multi-ethnic, multinational, 00:13:13
the European Community. 00:13:16
and multinational, multinational, multinational, 00:13:18
multinational, multinational, multinational. 00:13:21
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3 de julio de 2007 - 14:23
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Duración:
00′ 36″
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