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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-07-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Spanish Presidency (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020702.4.2-057"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-07-02-Speech-2-0582
lpv:speaker	lp:Paul Marie Coûteaux2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EDD (2001-12-11--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, given the highly informative nature of the Seville Summit, it would be useful if future summits followed its lead. It exposes Europe’s impotence for all to see. Filled with panic at what they call populism – which is nothing more than the exasperation of the European citizens who are being dispossessed of their very identity – the worthy Heads of State and Government took it upon themselves to tackle the problem of immigration head on. This attempt bore scant fruit in the form of Amsterdam in 1997. Yet again, the Union is appropriating the competences of the Member States and failing to replace their policies. As Mr Barón Crespo said earlier in this debate, we have to start work on Europe from scratch every six months. What a great idea! The citizens are gradually growing wise to this lack of progress and their exasperation is steadily increasing, which could have serious consequences. There is one item of the Seville conclusions which was largely overlooked and is worthy of emphasis – I am talking about item 6, which, it is said, asks the Council to study the question of the use of languages in order to improve the present situation. There is only one way to improve the present situation, and that is to allow Members to work in their own language. Despite the Rules of Procedure, however, this is far removed from our current way of working, as we increasingly, in committee, for example, vote on texts that are only available in English. Will we one day be forced to recruit European Members of Parliament on the basis of the results of an English language test? I would warn the Danish Presidency against the proposals it is about to make. It is not acceptable to choose one or two working languages because Parliament is not an international organisation. Nor is it acceptable to have to choose a pivot language, which would naturally be English, or rather, American English. If the federalists make this mistake, all will become clear in the eyes of the people, and we shall plainly see the true face of the European Union, as an outpost of the empire of the United States, and its true purpose of grinding down the European nations until they are nothing more than casualties of US world domination."@en1

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