Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-09-08-Speech-3-301"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-09-08"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100908.15.3-301"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-09-08-Speech-3-3022
lpv:speaker	lp:Frédérique Ries2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Mouvement Réformateur (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; FEMM (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; ITRE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; ALDE (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I am, at times, astonished by the tenor of some of our debates here in Parliament. That is the case today. What are we talking about? What is on the agenda? Not the Goldstone report. Not the settlements. Not operation ‘Cast Lead’. No, the title of the debate is ‘Draft bill on Israeli NGOs’, a bill which is still under debate in the Knesset, which has not yet voted on it. Our Parliament therefore demanded, back in April, to debate this issue immediately after it had been raised by the Israeli Government, and even before the Israeli Members of Parliament were able to debate it. It is all the more patronising – I am sorry but that is the only word for it – given that this bill, and this has already been mentioned, has now been substantially amended. Indeed, it is an insult to the work of our colleagues in the Knesset to think that it was our oral question here, in this Parliament, that transformed matters. It shows a total lack of understanding of the Israeli mentality and of the vitality of the democratic process, of the NGOs, and of the Israeli Members of Parliament. Mr Pöttering mentioned a visit which he has just made to Israel. I too have returned from Israel; I returned on Saturday. I met elected representatives from Kadima, from Labour, and some from Likud, and I can assure you that they have been working with the NGOs for months on this issue. They have not waited for us. So, I do not understand: every democracy in the world – and this has also been said – is moving towards more transparency, ethical conduct and accountability in public office. This is true of governments, political parties – obviously – public administration, the Member States too, the Commission and our Parliament; they all follow the same process of transparency, a process which is all the more necessary and understandable in the case of a region as troubled as this one is by the tragic conflict taking place there."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take a blue card question under Rule 149(8))"1
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