Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-09-04-Speech-1-056"
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"Several groups in the European Parliament, as well as the socialist party groups, expressed their concerns over the coalition formed in Slovakia in the summer that included one party leader who has been making hate speeches for years as an incitement against minorities. Unfortunately, their fears have come true.
The hate speeches made by this nationalist party leader let the genie out of the bottle, and have given encouragement to extreme nationalists, who have already physically assaulted members of the Hungarian minority on a number of occasions. This is the first time in the last decade that such attacks have occurred in Slovakia. Unfortunately, Prime Minister Fico was slow to distance himself from all of this, and was certainly not unequivocal when he did so. I am sure that the Slovak Prime Minister is slowly realising that the European Union will not tolerate any government playing with the fire of nationalism. This smouldering fire of nationalism ought to have been put out in Slovakia immediately. The prime minister is wrong if he holds the minority's representatives responsible for this. It is unlikely that Martin Schulz, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Hans-Gert Poettering or Elmar Brok spoke out last week in favour of stirring up the Hungarian coalition.
Europe's values do not allow nationalism. Isolating Slovakia is of no interest to anyone, but it is the duty of every one of us to overcome nationalism and racism."@en1
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