Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-06-14-Speech-4-270-000"
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"en.20120614.22.4-270-000"2
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"The European institutions regularly declaim the importance of citizen involvement in EU policies. While political and economic decisions are increasingly being made at super-state level, this is clearly not the best way of bringing the people closer to decision-making hubs. However, it is also clear that there are basic measures aimed at addressing citizens’ essential right to information; in this case, information about EU documents. We have always been uncompromising in our defence of the principle of multilingualism in the EU institutions, and argued that everyone involved and those who wish to access information should be treated equally. It is clear that the principle of no language-based discrimination can only be guaranteed by safeguarding the technical and human resources for it and, therefore, by ensuring sufficient funding for interpretation and translation. Many of those now supporting this resolution did not advocate this safeguard during discussions on Parliament’s budget. This issue can never be seen in terms of the technical and administrative functioning of the EU institutions, but should rather be considered a fundamental political decision to ensure a modicum of formal equality between EU stakeholders and citizens."@en1
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