Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-10-09-Speech-4-163"
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Another ‘typical’ report …
While asserting that ‘communication is an important element of both representative and participatory democracy’, the report is actually ‘concerned’ – which is the nicest way of putting it – about the results of the referendums that rejected the proposed Treaty, now known as the ‘Lisbon Treaty’, and explicitly with the one held in Ireland.
Accordingly, a majority in Parliament have decided to approve the joint declaration entitled ‘Communicating Europe in Partnership’. In this, three of the EU institutions (Council, European Commission and Parliament) agree on a crusade of propaganda – which, it should be noted, will continue right through the forthcoming European Parliament elections – based on the assumption that the increasing rejection and awareness of the nature of class and the major interests that are behind EU policies, as demonstrated by these referendums, will be overcome by conditioning and controlling the media agenda.
In actual fact this involves an attempt to hide or conceal the real content of EU policies and decision-making where these conflict with the interests of workers and other social strata in the various EU countries.
By demagogically using the words ‘democracy’ and ‘communication’, what the report is really trying to do is to call these into question."@en1
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