Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-06-14-Speech-3-045"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-06-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European political parties2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000614.3.3-045"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-06-14-Speech-3-0462
lpv:speaker	lp:Frank Vanhecke2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; TGI (1999-07-22--2001-10-02)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Vlaams Blok (1999-07-20--2003-06-04)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would first of all, perhaps specifically for the benefit of the German delegates, insofar as they still care about respecting the rule of law, like to remind you of the judgement by the German Constitutional Court of Karlsruhe, in which the European Union is unambiguously defined as a confederacy, and hence the opposite of a federal state. In fact, this vision of the European Union is also held by the large majority of citizens of our Member States for whom our Union is a close partnership of free peoples and states which very clearly respects the principle of subsidiarity. In the light of this, the project of European political parties is the umpteenth fundamentally undemocratic project because it can only widen the enormous chasm which exists between the electorate on the one hand and European political decision-making on the other. But this is apparently the price which some, hiding behind a mask of rhetoric, are willing to pay here in order to channel even more of the taxpayers’ money to already excessive party funds. It is also a project of people who are hoping to create the European federal superstate. Indeed, these people are trying to attain their goal, the undemocratic federal superstate, by guile, and seize upon a variety of issues, including monetary union, the unified statute for MEPs and the possible accession of countries which are not even geographically situated in Europe, such as Turkey, to help them reach that goal. In a European Union which really respects the principle of subsidiarity, we do not need a European political party. Anyone who has different ideas about Europe or who would like to increase the the money pump from the taxpayer to the European political parties, should have the courage to stand up and speak out, but you are lacking this courage."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"pompe afrique"1

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