Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-07-07-Speech-4-208-750"
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"The European Union should resist excessive pragmatism concerning the promotion of democracy in the world and should equip itself with versatile and imaginative mechanisms to allow it to interact with the public and their movements working locally to that end. The recent upheavals in the Muslim world have made evident the need for appropriate knowledge and interaction and for placing democracy and human rights among the principal priorities of the European Union. Therefore, declarations and legislative texts are not enough in and of themselves; they must be translated through direct knowledge into concrete measures that reinforce our capacity for action and influence, at the same time as we strengthen our international legitimacy and our ‘soft power’. Establishing a European Endowment for Democracy would be an excellent step in that direction. Rather than being an island where citizens’ rights, freedoms and guarantees are respected and promoted, the EU should put its experience at the service of those who need it."@en1
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