Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-07-04-Speech-1-107"
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"Mr President, I for my part very much agree that my country, Poland, should meet the conditions for joining the euro as soon as possible. At the same time, however, I am very much opposed to the idea of an EU-backed pro-euro propaganda campaign. This idea stems from the mistaken belief that societies are incapable of understanding the facts by themselves, and that they need the enlightened elite to help them do so. This belief has recently been discredited in the debate on the draft Constitutional Treaty, and I am quite sure that it will be discredited once again.
I come from a region that is home to the largest German minority in Poland. These people travel to work in Germany every day, and they noticed the difference the euro made to their own financial circumstances. They do not live in a social vacuum, but communicate with their neighbours. What kind of theoretical arguments can we put forward that will override their personal experience? How much money will we have to spend to convince them that prices would not rise if the euro was introduced, given that they have already experienced such rises once before?
I would call on the EU to admit that it has taken a wrong turning, and to abandon its attempts to use expensive promotional strategies, whether well or poorly formulated, to change the facts. Such strategies will not change people’s minds. What would change their minds, however, is a strong and stable European currency that needed no accolades. We should create the economic conditions that would allow the euro to become just such a currency in reality."@en1
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