Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-10-Speech-3-047"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-10-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation of the informal summit of heads of state and government (Lisbon, 18/19 October 2007)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20071010.16.3-047"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-10-10-Speech-3-0482
lpv:speaker	lp:Alessandro Battilocchio2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PETI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 member; NA (2004-07-20--2007-10-23)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2007-03-20--2007-10-23)3,3 unknown; Partito Socialista Nuovo PSI (2004-07-20--2008-02-18)3,3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2007-03-20--2007-10-23)3,3 substitute; TRAN (2007-01-31--2007-10-23)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2007-03-20--2007-10-23)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3,3 member; DEVE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, other Members will confirm this in the debate to come, but I believe that it is right to stress – partly with a view to the upcoming Summit – that a European citizen is somebody who holds citizenship of a Member State under national law. Thus, a citizen is anyone who benefits from the rights conferred upon him by such status, and especially the right to vote and to be elected as a Member of the European Parliament. Who have we been working for, for years, when we talk about the right to free movement, to education, to health, to work, to dignity, if not the citizens who have democratically elected us? I consider it equally important to maintain mutual respect between the Member States: for decades a gentlemen's agreement has enshrined the equal weight accorded to the three largest EU states after Germany. On the linguistic front, this has already been infringed countless times. Now, the Lamassoure-Severin proposal sets out to eliminate this parity in terms of political weight too. If this is the underlying sentiment, then we should not be unduly surprised that it is so difficult to reach an agreement to define a future together. The European Summit should thus reflect deeply upon the ideas of European citizenship and democratic legitimacy."@en1

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