Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-12-18-Speech-3-045"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-12-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The work of the Danish presidency2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021218.3.3-045"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-12-18-Speech-3-0462
lpv:speaker	lp:Per Gahrton2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Miljöpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, after all this praise, one scarcely dares utter a word of criticism of Denmark, especially not as a Swede, for fear of being suspected of envy. The Swedish Presidency ended, of course, as a bloody police fiasco, while the Danish peace meeting may end up in the history books. Nonetheless, there is some justified criticism. Denmark has not succeeded in showing that the EU is a project for the people and not only for élites. No change has been made to the EU’s disastrous agricultural policy, which increases the fortunes of counts and barons but forces small farmers from Eastern Europe into bankruptcy. There has been no allaying of the anxiety, felt in Estonia for example, that EU bureaucracy will crush the newly won right to self-determination. There has been no explanation of why Poland is forced to build a new Iron Curtain towards the east. Mr Titley, the Iron Curtain is not disappearing. Instead, it is only being moved. There has been no understandable explanation of why freedom of movement should apply from day one to capital, but from a much later date to people. The enlargement process has thus again become a unilateral annexation whereby Brussels dictates and the candidate countries knuckle under. Denmark, which has its own exemptions, should understand that an enlarged EU cannot be uniform, because it then becomes totalitarian. It must be diverse if it is to be democratic. Now, it is a question of ensuring that the referendums in the candidate countries are democratic. Above all, it is a question of ensuring that we do not decide about the EU’s constitution before the accession of the new countries. the EU were to make a decision on a constitution, right under the nose of the new EU Member States, that would be a triumph for the arrogance of power, and democracy would have lost out. Denmark’s success at the Copenhagen Summit would then merely be the calm before the storm."@en1
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