Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-04-14-Speech-5-047"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-04-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Information and communication2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000414.3.5-047"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-04-14-Speech-5-0482
lpv:speaker	lp:Esko Seppänen2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Vasemmistoliitto (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, a distinction must be made between information and propaganda. Mr Prodi’s Commission has started off badly with regard to information. I have heard that last autumn it issued an instruction to the national Commission offices to focus on the reporting of political information in place of the former citizens’ information service. This means information and propaganda from above. Actually, this means the spread of propaganda, not information. The Commission has started off badly in the most important area of information reporting, that of public accessibility. The Commission has issued a draft for a directive on public accessibility, which, by any common yardstick, is an untenable document, more conducive to secrecy than increased public accessibility. This is the Commission’s line on information policy insofar as it concerns public accessibility. Public accessibility is just as important as information. It offers our citizens and the media the opportunity to have hands-on access to documents themselves and draw their own conclusions, instead of being dependent on those of the Commission. There is a very obvious discrepancy between the official documents themselves and the conclusions being drawn. The documents state that the European Union’s crisis management troops are not a European Army, but the President of the Commission, Mr Prodi, says that whatever you call it, it is one. In an information context such as this, it is important to have access to the documents and draw one’s own conclusions, as the documents do not always spell things out clearly either. In addition, the way Parliament disseminates information must be criticised. Parliament has its own information offices, but the Finnish office apparently has no money to buy copies of the EU Treaty, which would allow Members to familiarise themselves with its contents in their office at Parliament. It has one Internet connection. To this extent, we could conclude that the officials working in Parliament’s own information office do not know what is going on in Parliament, although Parliament has excellent Internet connections. To all intents and purposes, it is a war of propaganda that is going on here. In many respects, it is also a civil war."@en1

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