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"Mr President, political parties are rooted in the industrial revolution, the creation of nation states and the period following World War II. Globalisation, with the new challenges to civilisation it entails, and the democratisation of the EU's political system mean that European political parties must play a part in European public life. They must become true institutions of representative democracy, acting as intermediaries between citizens and the decision-making centres of the EU. To this end, a statute for European political parties is needed to set out their rights and obligations and to allow them to become legal entities on the basis of European law. Such a statute should function effectively in the Member States.
We in the European Union are currently faced with a crisis of the European systems of liberal democracy. The constitutional crisis in the EU is accompanied by racism and intolerance, prejudice against immigrants and the erection of barriers between the nation states. The EU must support European political foundations, and promote and strengthen European political organisations and youth movements. The European Union must respond to the present crisis with a real European policy, as proposed by the Leinen report tabled before Parliament."@en1
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