Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-02-03-Speech-4-097"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-02-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000203.2.4-097"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-02-03-Speech-4-0982
lpv:speaker	lp:Elizabeth Montfort2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2000-11-22)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-30--2002-01-14)3 member; UEN (1999-07-20--2001-01-30)3
lpv:translated text	"I voted against the joint resolution on the situation in Austria. Austria is a free, independent and sovereign country. Consequently, neither the Council, the Commission nor the European Parliament has the right to interfere in the internal administration of a Member State. The Austrian elections were held in a free, proper and democratic manner. Any interference by the European institutions in this country is therefore unacceptable; it is in violation of the European Treaty (Article 7 of the Treaty of Amsterdam). Nevertheless, these same institutions showed no reluctance to accept Turkey as a candidate for membership of the European Union, despite its well-known human rights violations. Nothing of this nature has yet occurred in Austria. This precedent, created on the initiative of the Portuguese Presidency, is a worrying one as far as the future of the European Union is concerned. On the one hand, the political excommunication of Austria only demonstrates the worrying influence of conformist thought. On the other hand, if tomorrow the governments of European Union Member States must first receive not the confidence of the nation but the endorsement of supranational bodies, then the very principle of democracy will be destroyed. In such circumstances will it even be worth having elections? This is not the way to create the conditions for the nations of Europe to live together in harmony and to be able to cooperate to achieve a shared future."@en1

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