Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-03-24-Speech-2-164"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Syed Kamall2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I do think there is a misconception when we talk about active dialogue with citizens on Europe, because we often confuse dialogue with citizens with dialogue with civil society. We often confuse dialogue with citizens with dialogue with organisations either wholly or partly funded by the Commission. In effect, we have EU institutions talking to organisations funded by the Commission, which, in the end, means by taxpayers’ money. So, when we actually give citizens the right to have their say – as we did on the Constitution in France and the Netherlands and on the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland – and they say ‘no’, what do we do? We completely ignore the result of the vote! When the people have said ‘no’, dialogue does not mean making them vote again and again and again until you get the result you want. That is not dialogue. That is an abdication of democracy. It is time that we genuinely engaged in active dialogue with citizens."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Syed Kamall (PPE-DE ). -"1
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