Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-05-Speech-4-073"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20020905.6.4-073"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:spokenAs | |
| lpv:translated text |
".
Many fellow Members have the dreadful habit of twisting the meaning of words in order to meet the needs of the federalist cause.
We have had the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, which some wrongly considered to be the preamble to a hypothetical Constitution. We have had governance, an unidentified political subject. Now we have European citizenship, a concept that has no meaning at all.
Citizenship is a political, not a technocratic concept, based on a political and not bureaucratic reality, based on the roots that people put down, on belonging to a natural community.
Citizenship is a status that is only granted to those who, by virtue of their birth or their merits, share common values.
It also assumes the existence of a political area, the most advanced form of which is still the nation.
Yet, where is the European nation when it lacks what Renan called a desire to live together? Without language, culture and traditions shared by the peoples of the European Union, a European people is no more. As Joseph de Maistre would have said, no one has ever met ‘a European citizen’.
Your artificial citizenship has no substance whatsoever. The report therefore has no purpose."@en1
|
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples