Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-12-17-Speech-3-024"
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"Madam President, ‘arrogance’ is the word that springs to mind when reading this lengthy report, because the text is redolent with it. For instance, paragraph 25 laments the fact that the funds available ‘do not, as they stand, allow the Union to assume its role as a global player’. The same paragraph refers to the EU having the ‘capacity to assume its role as a global partner’. Whoever wanted the EU to have such a role? Why does it have such an inflated sense of its own importance? Certainly no one in my country has been given a vote on the development of the EU as a global player. We were told it was a common market, which would provide cheap wine and nice holidays.
I also note that the ‘global player’ wants its trademark for use in all communications with the masses and wants a major information campaign for the 2009 elections. For ‘information’, read ‘brainwashing’, because the EU will no doubt sell itself as the greatest benefit to humanity since penicillin, rather than the grotesque enemy of democracy and freedom of thought that it really represents.
The aforementioned arrogance spills over into everything it touches. There is no better example than the recent disgraceful and disrespectful treatment of President Klaus, a head of state, at a meeting in Prague by Members here. I put it to you that the EU has no democratic mandate whatsoever for the empire-building outlined in this budget."@en1
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"Jeffrey Titford (IND/DEM ). -"1
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