Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-02-Speech-3-107"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-05-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Public access to documents2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010502.7.3-107"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-05-02-Speech-3-1082
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; CONT (2000-05-03--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, when the tsars were in power in Russia the country had a common legal system. The monarchy did not govern the country by laws, however, but by exceptions to them. The principle which prevailed in tsarist Russia now holds true for the system of public access to European Union documents. The documents are publicly available, but their secrecy is assured by derogations. The documents pertaining to the common foreign and security policy are better kept secrets in the EU than Freemasons’ rituals, and the Worshipful Master of the EU Lodge is NATO. It has a monopoly over EU documents but has no connection with democracy. A culture of secrecy has been built into the EU, one that Parliament also helps to support. Last summer, a majority in Parliament approved a framework agreement with the Commission on the subject of public access to documents, one that places the various Members of the European Parliament in unequal positions. As a result, more than twenty Members brought an action against Parliament and the Commission for infringement of basic provisions in the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg. I wish to express my regrets to my Swedish fellow Members, but this wretched compromise has to be rejected."@en1

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