Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-12-16-Speech-4-022"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, a short while ago, when interpreting Mrs Badia i Cutchet’s speech, the interpreter used the term ‘Europeism’, presumably in error. No such word exists in the Polish language and, in fact, I have the feeling that the initiative we are currently discussing is constructing something that does not exist: ‘Europeism’, or some kind of artificial creation, which is a pawn in a political game.
I believe that what we are doing is unnecessary. As a famous philosopher once said, ‘entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity’. It is my impression that the European Heritage Label represents an entity being multiplied beyond necessity. I will not mention the huge question mark hanging over the issue of how the label is to be granted and withdrawn. I will not mention the fact that the initiative will cost European taxpayers EUR 1 350 000. My question is of a fundamental nature, quite apart from these other serious matters, namely: why are we doing this? Do we really need to construct something which is not Europeanness, but merely the Europeism I mentioned earlier?"@en1
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