Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-02-19-Speech-2-171"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-02-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Debate on the future of Europe (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080219.28.2-171"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-02-19-Speech-2-1722
lpv:speaker	lp:Paul Marie Coûteaux2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DEVE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Mouvement pour la France - Rassemblement pour l’Indépendance et la Souveraineté de la France (2005-10-05--2009-07-13)3 substitute; SEDE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Europe clearly only has a future through its peoples, since they are what give it substance and strength. If its peoples were to be absorbed, shorn of their responsibility for themselves, and divided or broken up into little principalities without any political dimension – in line with America’s imperialist policy, of course, as we have just seen with Kosovo, where the latest dreadful developments now pose such a threat for the future – in short, if Europe were to put itself in the hands of a landless technostructure that surrendered it to the whims of globalisation and empire, then I would be very fearful for our future. All the evidence now is that this machine that we, to our shame, refer to as the European Union is operating not just without the people, but actually against them. We have just had further proof of this in the astonishing negation of the French people’s vote in the 2005 referendum, aided and abetted by our lacklustre leader President Sarkozy. The French people feel let down, and have given up all hope in this general free-for-all, which is a negation of both the past and the future. Europe will only find salvation if the people take their destiny back into their own hands, if the Member States are free to pursue their own policies and only join forces when necessary, if we denounce the lies of a democracy that no longer has anything to do with or in short if the Member States and the nations reclaim their freedom. Otherwise the good ship Europe will founder, and we will find ourselves drifting further and further away from the shores of history."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"demos"1 "kratos"1

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