Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-14-Speech-2-143"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
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	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000314.8.2-143"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-14-Speech-2-1442
lpv:speaker	lp:Eija-Riitta Korhola2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Suomen Kristillinen Liitto (1999-07-20--2001-05-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we get the impression from some of the discussions on the subject of the Charter of Fundamental Rights that the family is becoming a politically incorrect concept in the European Union, so eager are some groups to dispense with the word. The UN Declaration of Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Council of Europe’s Social Charter and the European Parliament’s resolution on the declaration fundamental rights and freedoms clearly conclude that there is a special need to protect the family. Unfortunately, not everyone sees the matter in this way, and, in my opinion, we can see an unnecessary conflict between the rights of women and those of families, which people try to accommodate by rejecting the family instead of seeking a radically new and egalitarian European policy on the family. This means that family values in society are falling into the wrong, or at least biased, hands. The new right is getting hold of them and using them to capture the moral high ground. That is why the theme is tiresome to so many. However, I believe that it would be a big mistake for the European Parliament to approve of this sort of trend. Families are firmly connected with the European notion of society. Like many others, the Christian Democrats want a society where freedom and responsibility meet halfway. I see it as a family society because it is difficult to learn about joint responsibility and solidarity if it is not learnt in a small, close-knit community. Society may be just, but it cannot ever love. Its bosom is too cold and its arm too short. Nevertheless, it is this very love that is a requirement for the healthy development of the individual. And a progressive Charter of Fundamental Rights will be of no use to Europe if the members of its society have no wish to respect them. Social development with that end in sight still takes place in the family. There can thus be no people’s Europe without a family-oriented Europe. Families need recognition, encouragement, freedom of action and protection from social tyranny just the same as individuals do. Family rights and protection that have been provided for in legislation elsewhere in this respect should be reproduced in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights."@en1

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