Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-07-03-Speech-4-029"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-07-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Eurozone2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030703.2.4-029"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-07-03-Speech-4-0302
lpv:speaker	lp:Miquel Mayol i Raynal2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (2001-06-08--2004-07-19)3 member; ECON (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (2001-06-08--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and Mexico (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, I am not going to paraphrase here the technically excellent report of my fellow countryman Mr Gasòliba; I do not have the time in which to do so. On a political level, as a federalist and a supporter of Catalan independence, I ought to be pleased at the relative success of the euro. For Europeans, the euro reinforces the evidence of the process of integration of which it is the symbol. For Catalans, whether French or Spanish, it means that we once again have a common currency, which has not been the case since the disastrous Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659. I have to admit that I am not entirely happy, however, first of all because this common currency is not as common as all that. Some people do not have any of it, or at least not enough of it. For instance, in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, some 5% of families are living in a situation of extreme poverty, in other words with an income of less than EUR 240 per person per month. Secondly, I am not entirely happy because I would like Europe to have a stronger and more human symbol of unity than a unit of currency. In celebrating the euro, are we not rather like the chosen people who, forgetting their destiny, began to worship the golden calf? This earth, which has been so copiously watered with the blood and tears of our fratricidal wars, so distressingly covered with the ashes of our tragic genocides, deserves, I believe, stronger and less abstract signs of its humanity and its unity."@en1

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