Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-11-24-Speech-2-511"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-11-24"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20091124.39.2-511"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-11-24-Speech-2-5122
lpv:speaker	lp:Izaskun Bilbao Barandica2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partido Nacionalista Vasco (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2009-07-20--2014-06-30)3 substitute; FEMM (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; TRAN (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; PECH (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, adopted by the Council of Europe and 47 European States, including all the Member States of the European Union, establishes that regional and minority languages must be protected, because in some cases, they are at risk of disappearing. I think that this attitude helps to maintain and develop the traditions, diversity and cultural wealth of the continent, which we need to preserve. It also protects a fundamental right of the people who speak those languages, as the Commissioner said. The Commissioner mentioned that the Member States must use every tool available to ensure that these languages are used, but we know that this is not the case. Multilingualism is not guaranteed in all the Member States, nor is bilingualism when there are official languages, and the problem is that we do not feel that minority languages are part of the Union’s heritage, part of our heritage. I would like to ask you, however, to reflect on the concept of a minority language, because there are languages in the Member States that are official in the European Parliament, but have fewer speakers and are less well known than some regional languages, which are therefore not official languages. We are therefore violating the linguistic rights of 40 million Europeans, and protecting those rights is a question of principles, as the Commissioner himself said. There are 700 000 Basques who speak Euskera, the oldest language in Europe, which is of unknown origin, and bringing Europe closer to the Basque people also means, among other things, making them feel that saying ‘ is equally worthy of respect as saying ‘ ‘good evening’ or ‘ ."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"bonsoir’"1 "buenas noches’"1 "gabon’"1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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