Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-15-Speech-2-126"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-05-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:VOTE2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010515.5.2-126"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-05-15-Speech-2-1272
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2000-11-09--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"New technology in European education should not create a fresh divide between the national languages and a privileged language of communication. Europe boasts a collection of relatively small and predominantly monolingual regions. This is not America, where migrants who all live in one and the same community yet speak different languages by origin, need to adopt the official language in order to be able to communicate with one other. In Europe, language differences within one region often reflect differences between rich and poor, powerful and powerless, winners and losers. For centuries, large multicultural states have attempted to impose a different language on their inhabitants. That was the language of the country’s capital, which was also used outside the capital by businesspeople, officials and the military. Whilst the privileged adopted the language protected by the government, workers and farmers continued to speak their own national languages. That is mainly how linguistic conflict started and large states disintegrated. Even today, it is still a requirement for education and government to be in the citizen’s own language in all the regions where the language border does not coincide with the country’s border, or with the internal borders of autonomous regions. If we do not want a young generation to be divided artificially between the privileged and the underprivileged, we need to defend the equality of languages."@en1

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