Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-09-07-Speech-2-362"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2010-09-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation of the Roma people in Europe (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"ro"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100907.28.2-362"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-09-07-Speech-2-3632
lpv:speaker	lp:Corneliu Vadim Tudor2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; CULT (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Partidul România Mare (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; NA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"If Europe’s states have a common denominator, it is not currency, the economy or even civilisation; their common denominator is the gypsies. As a historian and sociologist, I am going to use the word ‘gypsy’, which does not have any derogatory or degrading overtones, especially as the term ‘Roma’ is artificial and contrived. After all, exactly 125 years ago, Johann Strauss composed the operetta ‘The Gypsy Baron’, not ‘The Roma Baron’. It is unfortunate that the lack of distinction between Roma and Romanians persists. I have found that where gypsies are concerned, racial prejudice, as well as false stereotypes and untrue accounts, still abound all over the world. There are people who call them Roma and hate them, while I call them gypsies and love them. Neither the gypsies nor my country, Romania, are to blame for what is happening at the moment. The largest wave of gypsy migration to Europe took place in 1241, during the time of the great Mongol invasion. They were brought to Europe as skilled craftsmen serving in the auxiliary troops. The fact that, after such a long time, there are more gypsies in Romania than in the rest of Europe is due to successive waves of expulsions and persecution, which took place over 500 years, in most of the countries of the ‘Old Continent’. Romania is now being pilloried because it has been too tolerant and hospitable. The mass expulsion of gypsies is not a solution. It is, of course, not a pleasant experience to have your comfortable life disrupted, but when crimes are committed, the law must be enforced on a case-by-case basis rather than opting for collective sanctions. Why does the government in Paris not expel them directly to India, their country of origin?"@en1
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