Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-02-15-Speech-2-194-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-02-15"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20110215.22.2-194-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-02-15-Speech-2-195-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:David-Maria Sassoli2
lpv:spokenAs	member; S&D (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partito Democratico (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; TRAN (2010-10-07--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, once again, we have witnessed the inability of the Italian Government to protect the pro-European reputation of Italy and the interests of its businesses on a crucial point such as the adoption of the European patent. Twenty-five countries out of 27 and the overwhelming majority of Parliament support a proposal that regulates the field of patents and that has a real effect on the most innovative enterprises and those that are most orientated to international markets. By ruling ourselves out of this decision, we in Italy will expose our enterprises to the risk of not being suitably protected in Europe and across the world. It is quite incredible that a government that does nothing to spread Italian culture throughout the world, that cuts funds to cultural institutes and fails to value the language of the country that is host to the largest number of World Heritage Sites, can ride roughshod over the language issue while our enterprises have actually always asked for patents to be drafted only in English, which is now the lingua franca of the global economy. However, we have reached a result that allows anyone submitting patents to do so in their own language. Madam President, there was nothing that made it compulsory for Mr Barnier to force this through with such a hasty vote before the opinion of the Court of Justice which, as we know, will be expressed during the first week of March and will deal mainly with two crucial points: the use of one’s national language to defend oneself before the European Union Patent Court and the very legitimacy of creating a patent court. As we well know, these are important issues to resolve before taking any decision. Hence, the Italian delegation of the Democratic Party (PD) decided to abstain."@en1
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