Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-19-Speech-4-084"
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Financing European political parties is yet another step in the direction of the European federal superstate. From above, there is the desire to standardise the existing parties, knock the edges off them and extricate them from their national traditions. Moreover, political parties in various Member States are already being funded by the government; in Belgium, for example, they are financed by the provinces, the regions and the federal government. It is really worrying when funding becomes tied in with conditions. Concepts such as 'respecting the democratic principles' are not defined anywhere precisely. This opens the floodgates to arbitrariness. Except for the Communist parties, only the odd party represented in the European Parliament is opposed to democracy, but press articles have meanwhile shown that national right-wing parties are expressly being watched. In certain circles, it has become commonplace to declare opposition to 'politically correct' dogmas – concerning the immigration problem, for example – to be incompatible with democratic principles. Aberrations of this kind must be reserved for strictly polemical use and may not be translated into European legislation.
The representatives of the
and the
will therefore be voting against the report and will examine all legal remedies against this violation of the principle of equality."@en1
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