Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-14-Speech-2-130"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU Charter of Fundamental Rights2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000314.8.2-130"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-14-Speech-2-1312
lpv:speaker	lp:Charles de Gaulle2
lpv:spokenAs	co-chair; TGI (1999-07-22--2001-10-02)3 member; ECON (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Front national (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, with this proposed charter and some other reports which this House will be debating tomorrow morning, we have now entered a new period of European construction, the ‘Dadaist’ period of European construction, which scorns reality and perpetually seeks moral justification for itself. The fact is, you refute the transcendental and the sublime because you confuse moralism with morality – indeed, Goethe, as you know, said that moralism was the opposite of morality – and legalism with law. Please understand that we are not challenging the existence of human rights. We are saying that they should be taken into consideration among other rights, and that it is all of these rights which must contribute to the general interest, for it is general interest that is the primordial rule of political action, not the zeitgeist, the showbiz society, the mediagoguery, or weakness raised up as a system. Indeed, human rights are no more than an object, a pretext, which the speakers here – like the pseudo-artist Duchamp – generally make a mockery of. It is a pretext, when the very title of the proposed charter speaks of the fundamental rights ‘of’ the European Union instead of fundamental rights ‘within’ the European Union. What you are trying to create is a precursor for a constitution that is impossible to find because in fact you have reached a dead end and you know perfectly well that the construction of Europe has turned into an unbelievable preachifying mass of texts and declarations. Forgetting the people, social democrats hide, shamefaced, behind human rights and furtive liberals turn into social democrats. But the people take note of these recantations and will, one day, reject them, or indeed the Western world will come to an end."@en1

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