Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-04-03-Speech-2-286"
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"Mr President, after listening to the Members who have spoken before me and with whom I totally agree, I have had to change my views and alter the content of the speech I had prepared to give during this debate.
Mr President, have you seen how we all agree on this issue? There is no dissent: we all want society to recognise that people with disabilities should receive what it is right for them to have. However, people have been saying these sorts of things for 35 years, and still nothing tangible has been done. In your opinion, who is responsible for this, Commissioner Diamantopoulou? The answer is clear, for the bench normally occupied by the culprits is empty: it is the Council's bench. It is the governments which do not want to give people with disabilities what it is right to give them. And it is the Council of Ministers of the European Union that has the power to do something: its absence tonight is proof of that. And that means the Swedish Presidency, which we all consider to be one of the most enlightened. Well then, Commissioner Diamantopoulou, I am sending you a message saying that I am sure you are the best ambassador and determined supporter of the rights of people with disabilities: it is the governments and the Council of Ministers of the European Union who have to do what we all agree has to be done. If nothing has been done thus far, it is because the governments of our 15 States are blind, deaf and dumb. They are the true disabled in this European society."@en1
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