Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-16-Speech-4-288"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000316.10.4-288"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-16-Speech-4-2892
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	"Today, the European Parliament is presenting us with the new man in a new world. The Ludford report is not an account of the good or bad situation as regards racism in the European Union; it is the political programme of an extreme left-wing libertarianism that, in the end, shows little concern for the natural rights of man. In fact, reading this document would suggest that the countries of Europe, especially the Member States, are hellish places where the most elementary rights are trampled under foot daily, where the governments and their authorities, including, and I quote, “the police, justice and immigration services”, pursue totalitarian and inhumane policies. Oh how wonderful it must be to live in China, in Cuba or in North Korea! Faced with these tyrants, the European Union is keeping vigil: since it is close to the people, and so concerned with their happiness, that it manages their daily lives, it will know how to promote new and hitherto unknown rights; since its foundations and the way it works are so democratic, it will know how to create this new Europe freed of all sin; it will know how to be the undisputed guide that can lead all its followers towards ‘a brighter future’. This is not serious. Communities, whether national or European, need points of reference that are not exclusive but that guarantee enduring relations. Our nations are often pluri-secular, they have always attracted populations and ethnic groups different from their own, who have added their value to that of their hosts. This happened without problem, because our nations presented these newcomers with identified systems within which they could easily find their bearings and their place. Mrs Ludford is proposing a society with no model, where the law of the strongest would be bound to prevail. Freedom means a just and identical law ; for each individual or each group to have its own law spells anarchy and barbarism. The European edifice will not be built simply by the addition of those who make it up; it will be the result of a concordance of views about its destiny and the ways to achieve it, or it will not be built at all. Today, the Ludford report puts us at a remove from that Europe."@en1
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