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"Contributing to the creation of a programme for developing European digital content on the Internet is, in fact, crucial and the priorities that have been adopted are above criticism.
What the text says about the necessary linguistic and cultural customisation is, however, sometimes frustrating: the encouragement to produce programmes on regional languages and on the “ethnic minorities” that are represented in the Union is a decision whose predictable consequences are the gradual erosion of national identities.
In the field of digital information, the linguistic vehicle holds a competitive advantage, a style of reasoning and a legal position that favour those in whose mother tongue it appears. In these circumstances, it is in large part the coherence and the unity of the United States that have guaranteed that country its pre-eminent position in this market of the future.
And what are we going to do to counter this American dominance? We are going to “balkanise” our cultural products!
Faced with this situation, the ‘bluecoat’ will find nothing but a stream of inward-looking Indian tribes who will take it upon themselves to communicate with the outside world in the only common denominator: their master’s voice, whose insidious totalitarianism gives the impression of having been liberated from the most immediate control. We have already heard vivid examples in this Parliament of separatist Members who would rather speak in English than in the official language of their Member State.
Leaving aside the technical problems that will arise when, in order to respect the text, we will need to find a system for switching from Kurdish to Breton… The most serious aspect, however, is that these measures are an attack on the linguistic unity and therefore on the whole unity of the Member States: citizenship is underpinned, in almost all of Europe’s nations, by several pillars, of which acceptance of one official language in the national community is one of the most important. Some Member States, who practise linguistic partition on a daily basis, know that this inevitably leads to political partition and the collapse of a sense of nationhood."@en1
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"(The speech was cut short pursuant to Rule 137(1) of the Rules of Procedure)"1
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