Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-12-15-Speech-1-043"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-12-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:One-minute speeches on matters of political importance2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031215.5.1-043"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-12-15-Speech-1-0442
lpv:speaker	lp:Efstratios Korakas2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I have listened to Mr Beasley repeat the shameless arguments that, in Latvia and Estonia, they are flagrantly violating the rights of almost half the population in these countries, who were born and have worked there and whose only crime is that they are of Russian extraction or speak Russian. These people are being forced with humiliating examinations to abandon their country. At the same time, communist parties are banned in these countries and their cadres are being persecuted, as are the veterans of the anti-fascist war, and monuments are being erected in honour of the SS and the Nazi conquerors. At the same time, the universities are being closed, while the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is being forced to open universities and to ensure the Albanian minority, 25% of the population, is represented in the parliament and in the government. The problem is that similar views and these sorts of violations are also being supported by the Commissioner materially responsible for enlargement, Mr Verheugen, and by the President of the Commission, Mr Prodi, who said in a recent response to my letter that, in his view, the ban on a communist party was no reason to censure a country by preventing it from becoming a member of the European Union. However, because the communist parties in the Member States of the European Union are still legal, I fear that this is a foretaste of autocratic and anti-democratic measures to come. That is why I am protesting, and I have insisted today also that this protest on my part go on record."@en1

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