Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-10-04-Speech-3-344"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-10-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Parental control of television broadcasting2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001004.14.3-344"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-04-Speech-3-3452
lpv:speaker	lp:Ole Andreasen2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Venstre (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with South Africa (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system (2000-07-06--2001-09-05)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mrs Pack is right. We are concerned here with the proximity principle. The EU is facing a number of challenges – enlargement towards the East, the intergovernmental conference and the Treaty in Nice. These questions are at the top of the agenda. The problems relating to democracy and to the EU’s closeness to the people are other crucial issues. It is a question of the EU’s political legitimacy in the eyes of the people – and time is rather pressing. I believe that solving these problems is a prerequisite for the success of the European project as a whole. In his splendid major speech yesterday, President of the Commission Romano Prodi mentioned that, for the sake of the EU’s political legitimacy in the future, it will be necessary to produce a list of those subjects the EU is to deal with and those which the Member States are to deal with. I entirely agree with the President of the Commission about the need to prepare such a list along the lines of a constitution, and I am quite clear about the fact that the subsidiarity principle must be reinforced and that the EU must therefore refrain from making policy on the wide range of areas in which the political problems are not of a cross-border nature. The EU should stick to the key political issues. In so far as the President of the Commission has had any ideas about which areas belong where, I hope that he shares my view that issues of parental control of children’s television viewing do not belong on the EU’s agenda. On behalf of the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party, I have therefore tabled a number of amendments, the purpose of which is to limit the effects of this report in so far as it may be adopted. Allow me finally to emphasise that the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party is also concerned about the increase in the number of TV programmes containing sex and violence. We are also convinced that these programmes are in no way of benefit to viewers and certainly not to children. But, all other things being equal, I think it is the job of parents to prevent their children from seeing that sort of thing at home."@en1

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