Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-12-04-Speech-3-043"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-12-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation of the Copenhagen European Council (Copenhagen, 12-13 December 2002)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021204.3.3-043"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-12-04-Speech-3-0442
lpv:speaker	lp:Marco Pannella2
lpv:spokenAs	member; NA (2001-10-03--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 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr Bonde first became a Member of Parliament – as I did – in July 1979. As a communist activist, he was elected to uphold the need to stop Denmark acceding to Europe. Over 20 years on, you have heard what our dear Mr Bonde has to say about the management of the situation before us. In 1979, Mr Cohn-Bendit was probably still much more revolutionary than we are as European federalists, persistently liberal, persistently anti-fascist, anti-communist, anti-fundamentalist and federalist. Today, things have changed. Today, Mr Cohn-Bendit said something very interesting, but he presented it as a paradox. The United States is proposing that we speed up the time frames for Turkey’s entry into Europe. Mr Cohn-Bendit says that it is as if we were to call upon the United States to speed up their federalising process and get on with annexing Canada and Mexico. Is the concern today not the need to move towards a world organisation of democracy and democracies, using the ultimate global free liberal weapon of mass attraction in preference to the ultimate weapons of mass destruction? The ultimate free, liberal weapon of mass attraction is the recognition of the natural, historically-won right of every woman and every man to political democracy, to the rule of law and, therefore, to the liberal foundations of federal, federalist States which respect the freedom of the individual citizen. What has all this got to do with Copenhagen? A great deal! After the war, Benedetto Croce observed that, indeed, monarchic Europe – the Scandinavian monarchies, the British monarchy, the Dutch and Belgian monarchies, as it were – was the only part of Europe which resisted the different forms of nationalism, including national socialism, and the different forms of socialism, including communism, preserving a faint hope of freedom. This story is paradoxical. The paradox which we want to focus on, Presidents, is that you are not free to build Europe in Copenhagen now: you are representing bureaucratised States and a bureaucratised Parliament. This means that the creative spirit is not free to flow where it will. We must fight for freedom and for Europe."@en1

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