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"Mr President, this week Parliament has dealt with the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights and we have specified – adequately I believe – the civil rights of individuals. For me, however, as a representative of the Basque Country, collective rights are still lacking – and I hope they will soon be included – for example, the right of self-determination for European peoples and nations with a collective consciousness as such, so that, if a majority of their citizens so decide, they can join the European Union directly and not just through the existing Member States.
We also approved the inclusion of the right to protection of the diversity of European languages and cultures, especially the less widespread and less used national and regional languages, which also gives due recognition to the official languages of the autonomous communities and regions, like the Basque language.
In this increasingly global world, some people want to impose homogeneity on us, as if we were all soldiers or units in a production chain. So I want to claim the right to an individual and collective identity, the right to diversity and difference. That is definitely a fundamental right worth defending in the European Union."@en1
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