Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-09-04-Speech-1-043"
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"en.20060904.17.1-043"2
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"Mr President, over the past few weeks our Slovakian friends have informed us of a number of aggressive acts and provocations targeted at people from the Hungarian and gypsy minorities. The incidents involved physical assaults and offensive insults written on banners at a sporting event. For example, a young woman from the Hungarian minority was brutally beaten for speaking on her mobile phone in Hungarian. These cruel acts have shocked the Slovakian-Hungarian public, as there have been no such atrocities over the last eight years. These alarming outrages against the minorities are completely against the European Union’s ethics and principles, which Slovakia guaranteed to abide by when it joined the EU.
In the European Union there is no room for acts that threaten the peaceful coexistence of minorities, especially if these acts are incited by governments or politicians. I ask that we take steps together against the extreme anti-minority remarks made by certain members of the Slovakian Government so that they do not provoke any more aggressive incidents. If we want to stay loyal to the Union’s principles and to respect individual and collective human rights, we must act immediately before the atrocities lead to tragedy."@en1
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"Pál Schmitt (PPE-DE ). –"1
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