Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-02-02-Speech-3-138-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-02-02"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20110202.15.3-138-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-02-02-Speech-3-139-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Mario Mauro2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Il Popolo della Libertà (2009-07-14--2013-03-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP (2009-07-14--2013-03-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with South Africa (2009-09-16--2013-03-14)3 substitute; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-08--2011-07-31)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2009-09-16--2013-03-14)3 member; Special committee on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union after 2013 (2010-06-17--2011-06-30)3 member; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Baroness Ashton, I may have been hard on you in the past, but I have to admit that this business must be making your life very complicated, so I hope that what I have to say may be able to help. The first thing I want to state very clearly is that the role of States is to protect their citizens, not to run their lives. When a government run people’s lives instead of protecting them, it stops being a government and becomes a regime. This is what happened in Tunisia and in Egypt, because political situations that began with the profound idealism of winning independence had been regimes for many years. Our task is to defend the liberty and democracy in the hearts of those who are today defending it in the streets. The second subject I want to mention concerns us, the European Union. We need to admit that we do not have a political strategy for the Euro-Mediterranean region, which means admitting that the Barcelona Process and the Union for the Mediterranean have failed. It is a pretence: these are just political games that serve no purpose and have achieved nothing. We need to act decisively on this. We need to begin to develop this strategy: we need to plan it and we need to carry it through, as we did for Eastern Europe and as we did for the Balkans, although they had to be forced into it. If we do not have this strategy, it will make no difference whether or not we speak with one voice, because our words will be meaningless."@en1
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