Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-04-Speech-4-108"
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Respecting and safeguarding the linguistic and cultural diversity in Europe is an honourable objective. Any erosion of this diversity would constitute an impoverishment of our cultural heritage. Consequently, measures to avoid this, such as the proposed establishment of a European Agency on Linguistic Diversity and Language Learning, deserve every support.
However, the draft resolution is explicitly based on the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. The Flemish Government has always refused to sign this agreement – with good reason – since French-speaking Belgians who have moved to Flanders want to misuse it in order to have French recognised as an official language in Flanders. This is in conflict with language legislation that has been established with great difficulty and the principle of territoriality in Belgium. It mainly concerns people who refuse to fit in with the Dutch-speaking character of the region, and who, in fact, turn failure to teach another language – in this case Dutch – into a political point of debate.
Since the report does not propose any measures to prevent groups of relatively recent newcomers to the region from using the Treaty to their advantage in order to cancel out a linguistic balance that has been achieved with great difficulty, the representatives of the
will be voting against it."@en1
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