I believe that it is absolutely essential for contacts between parliaments in Europe and Asia to be intensified and that, before the next ASEM Summit in Copenhagen at the latest, we should put in place a stringent process to monitor these important joint political initiatives, even if some of them are based on conflicting principles.
Il me paraît indispensable d'intensifier les contacts entre les parlements d'Europe et d'Asie et de parvenir, avant le prochain sommet ASEM de Copenhague, à mettre en place un suivi rigoureux de ces démarches politiques communes importantes, même si leurs bases sont partiellement contraires.