Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-02-09-Speech-2-027"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-02-09"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20100209.4.2-027"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Timo Soini2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; CULT (2009-07-20--2011-04-25)3 unknown; Perussuomalaiset (2009-07-14--2011-04-25)3 member; Delegation for relations with Canada (2009-09-16--2011-04-25)3 vice-chair; EFD (2009-07-14--2010-02-15)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2009-09-16--2011-04-25)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in Finland we are commemorating the Winter War. Seventy years ago, the communist Soviet Union attacked tiny Finland. We defended our independence and our right of self­determination. This also continued during the Second World War, which was a terrible ordeal for Europe as a whole. It left us with a strong desire for independence, and a strong desire to decide our own affairs. Helsinki, Moscow and London were the only capital cities that were not occupied in the Second World War. It is for this reason that I want every nation to be able to decide its own affairs freely. As for the Commission, you certainly have good intentions and there are good people in the Commission, including Olli Rehn, who is Finnish, and who is a moral person with backbone. The peoples of Europe, however – the Finns, the Germans, the British, the Danes – where have they been able to vote for and elect these commissioners? Nowhere. How can they be dismissed? They cannot. The EU is a bureaucracy and not a democracy. I am in favour of cooperation between independent states. I am Finnish, I am a European, and I love our continent, but that does not mean that I am a supporter of the European Union. Each of us got votes; I got 130 000 votes in Finland. How many votes did the commissioners get and where did they get them? Here they might get 300 votes, but that is about it. What lies at the heart of democracy? It is national sovereignty. That means that only a people that forms its own nation, independent of all others, has an eternal and unrestricted right always to decide its own affairs. This is a basic principle."@en1
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