Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-05-14-Speech-3-038"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-05-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Iraq2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030514.1.3-038"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-05-14-Speech-3-0392
lpv:speaker	lp:Ole Krarup2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2003-02-24--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Folkebevægelsen mod EU (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-09-09--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"It is perhaps not generally known that the small country I come from is among those countries that have given the United States an unconditional endorsement. In this quite surrealistic debate, I should like, moreover, to draw attention to a most outstanding contribution by my fellow countryman and fellow MEP, Mr Andreasen from the Group of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party, who is closely associated with the Danish Prime Minister. Normally, he speaks in Danish, which is a good idea. As a symbolic act, he gave his speech in English, however, and that of course brilliantly reflects his close relationship with the Danish Prime Minister, who belongs to the same political party as himself and is a close colleague of his. The Danish Prime Minister spent five days in Washington, and the press – the Danish world press, with which my fellow MEPs are probably unfamiliar – described how, during the concluding session, as the Prime Minister paid tribute to President Bush for his honourable conduct, the strains of Mendelsohn’s Wedding March from the famous play were suddenly heard. I should like, moreover, to emphasise – for my fellow MEPs may well not be aware of this – that Mr Andreasen, who gave the Prime Minister his unconditional endorsement, is certainly no slouch when it comes to irony. The rhetoric on which the Danish Government’s endorsement of the United States is based is so absurd that only a major ironist could expose it, as my fellow MEP did so brilliantly, it being understood that what is so surreal about this debate is that the EU has no common foreign policy and that this Parliament would in any case have no influence over such a policy."@en1

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