Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-01-11-Speech-2-073"
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"As the leader of the Hungarian Socialist delegation and as a president of the Intergroup for historical national minorities, regional languages and constitutional regions, I welcome the Constitutional Treaty. This Constitutional Treaty is of historic importance in many regards. It is definitely so for national minorities, as it will be the first time in the history of the Union that national minority rights become part of the
. At last a working system can finally be established to protect minority rights within the European Union. As a Hungarian Socialist, I am especially proud that it was my government who initiated the section regarding minority groups.
Millions of people belonging to national minority groups will celebrate the Constitutional Treaty’s coming into effect. I represent a country where 10% of the population is made up of minorities, and from a cultural point of view, one third of its people lives outside its national borders. As a representative in the European Parliament, I had the right to say in the Hungarian parliament’s ratification debate that every country, including Hungary, shall now have two Constitutions. The more generous Constitution is to be observed. We must ensure that we always refer to the Constitution that grants more rights to our citizens, to the citizens of Europe. All countries will become richer in this respect. With regard to minority rights, the Hungarian Constitution is far more generous than the European Constitutional Treaty, as it includes collective rights, acknowledges national minorities as decision-making factors in legislation, and in addition to equal treatment, it emphasises the importance of favourable treatment, positive discrimination and allows minorities to establish their own institutions of self-government at all levels."@en1
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