Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-03-28-Speech-3-048"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-03-28"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Follow-up to the Berlin declaration (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070328.12.3-048"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-03-28-Speech-3-0492
lpv:speaker	lp:Bernard Poignant2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PECH (2007-01-31--2007-07-09)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) (2007-03-14--2007-07-10)3 member; REGI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2006-06-07--2009-07-13)3 substitute; CONT (2007-01-31--2007-07-09)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, the declaration made me think back to certain Europeans – to Robert Schuman, since you have used his method of a declaration drafted under conditions of the strictest secrecy, which can be a very fruitful approach. Another reason why I thought of him was that, although his father was French, being born during the war meant that he was born German; his mother was a Luxembourger, and French was only his third language, yet he ended up as President-in-Office of the Council. I also cast my mind back to Alcide De Gasperi, who was born Austrian and served as an Austrian parliamentarian in the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before becoming an Italian one. These two men were frontiersmen, and it is frontiersmen such as they who are the makers of Europe, for frontiers are the scabs that form over the wounds of history, and we are here in order that those wounds may never be reopened. Then I found my thoughts turning to you three. They turned to you, Mr President, the scribe of peace, for you are of my generation, a son of a Europe at peace rather than in the flames by which it had previously been consumed, a man with your own personal wound. As for you, Madam Chancellor, you are, for a Frenchman like me, the Chancellor who came from over the wall, over what is now a tourist trail and was once a barrier, while you, Mr Barroso, are the President of recovered liberty, who has changed since the age of 18, when, politically speaking, you were a bit red around the edges. Looking at the three of you – I do love that declaration, and this is an anniversary, after all – I said to myself: ‘Even so, they do have something wrong with them; they are not socialists.’ Then, though, I remembered what Guy Mollet, who was a Socialist and President of the Council in 1956, said: ‘If you are going to make Europe, don’t wait for it to become Socialist first’. And, yes, it is indeed a damn well-made piece of work!"@en1

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