Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-06-11-Speech-1-109-000"
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"Madam President, the EU’s motto is ‘Unity in Diversity’, and one of the diversities which defines the EU, in my opinion, is its multilingualism, and I therefore cannot believe that we are sitting here this evening and discussing whether all 500 million European citizens really need to have an equal opportunity to discuss matters that are decided at European level in their own language, the language they understand. It now depends on whether this is an official or an unofficial EU language. We can talk about that, but it is naturally important for people to have access to this, so that they can understand what we, the politicians, are debating. You know, when you say you do not have enough money for this, I would like to propose a procedure – when you are deciding on some measure in the future or when you want to launch a public consultation, take a large hat and we can throw 23 large balls into it with the name of a language on each ball, and we can pick out one, two or three balls depending on how much money we have for the consultation in question, and on the basis of this we will choose the language in which we are going to present the consultation to the public and the citizens of the EU, because the languages that are chosen by you are, in fact, not understood at all by most European citizens."@en1
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