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"Madam President, the European Union is becoming increasingly unpopular with citizens across the continent. It is rightly seen as out of touch, undemocratic and dictatorial. The euro, its grand unifying political project, is collapsing round its ears. Greece and Italy are the first to pay the price by having undemocratic government imposed on them.
So what does the Commission do to halt this decline in popularity? It comes up with vain and crass projects in an effort to make itself appear more relevant to Member States. First, it attempted to place the EU flag – which is not meant to exist anyway – on the sports kits of national teams. Then it calls for the EU flag to be flown at sporting events, and now it comes up with the crackpot idea of EU heritage labels.
In the report, it says that these EU heritage sites would be monuments, cultural landscapes, archaeological sites, and even places of remembrance. What an insult! Are you really suggesting that war memorials which honour the brave and fallen in two World Wars should have an EU plaque placed on them? There is only one memorial in England I can think of where it would be appropriate to stick an EU plaque, and that is the gravestone of Ted Heath, the man who betrayed Britain into the European Union. I do not think anyone would object to that, least of all him.
The report also says that the plaque’s aim is to strengthen the sense of belonging to the EU. It will not: it will just enrage the natives. It is just desperate propaganda from an organisation to which more and more people do not wish to belong. I urge all MEPs who are proud of the heritage of their own nations to vote for my group’s rejection amendment tomorrow. Let us stick the European Heritage Label on the dustbin of history."@en1
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