Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-09-08-Speech-3-312"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2010-09-08"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Draft bill on Israeli NGOs (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100908.15.3-312"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-09-08-Speech-3-3132
lpv:speaker	lp:Sari Essayah2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, the principle of the draft bill is that foreign government funding for NGOs should be fully transparent. Do we have a problem with transparency? Hopefully not. In most EU Member States, we have legislation about NGO funding and its transparency as well as the funding of political parties. In Finland, for example, we have just passed a law about the funding of political parties by means of which we wanted to prohibit all kinds of foreign funding except from European sister-parties. We do not want foreign forces to be able to buy influence in Finnish political life. All us politicians would be very astonished if some fellow European Member State government started funding our national NGOs for political campaigns. At least we would like to know the source of the money and the possible motives. The Quartet representative, Tony Blair, pointed out the double standards so commonly applied in European attitudes towards Israel in his speech last week in Herzliya. He said, do not apply rules to the government of Israel that you would never dream of applying to your own country. So the European Parliament should support Israeli legislators in ensuring transparency rather than attacking with false accusations, and interfering in, a democratic legislative process. Are we, as Europeans, fully aware that EU-funded NGOs’ projects do not always promote peace, but rather work against mutual understanding and create more distrust and hostility between Israelis and Palestinians? So this new legislation is important for European taxpayers as well, so that we will know how our money is spent in that area."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Suomen kristillisdemokraatit (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; EMPL (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ECON (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Sari Essayah (PPE )."1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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