Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-07-03-Speech-2-017-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-07-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Review of the Danish Presidency (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120703.4.2-017-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-07-03-Speech-2-018-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Morten Messerschmidt2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2012-03-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Israel (2012-03-14--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; AFCO (2012-01-25--2014-06-30)3 substitute; JURI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Dansk Folkeparti (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair_member_of_the_bureau; EFD (2012-01-27--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2012-03-29--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, well, Ms Thorning-Schmidt, you did it! No one has ever before sold off the family silver on such a grand scale only to then throw the whole lot away. You said ‘yes’ to the fiscal compact. You declared yourself to be ‘European at heart’. You abolished border controls. You maintained agricultural aid. For six months, you ingratiated yourself with the EU’s non-elected elite. Nevertheless, your government has been booed out of the European Parliament. The other day, you had to cancel the referendum on the Danish opt-outs, and yesterday you threw out European patents. What I thought would be an historic love story has turned out to be nothing but a soap opera. ‘Europe at work’, that was your slogan. Not since 1997 has unemployment in the EU been as high as it is today. The euro is not merely the Titanic after the iceberg; it is the Titanic at the bottom of the ice-cold Atlantic. Now the people of Europe are drifting around in the cold water in the hope that you, who sunk their ship, will come and save them. You will not do that, however, because you are fumbling around in the dark. You have held 20 summits to rescue the euro, but the only thing you have rescued is a disgraceful monument to yourself, and you have left an economy in ruins. Therefore, let me say this very clearly – so clearly that even you can understand it: shame on you. I have heard many people express their astonishment at the visionless Danish Presidency. You did not even meet your French socialist friends half way when they wanted to kick-start the economy. However, I know what lies behind this, because in reality, this has definitely not been an ordinary, proper sort of Presidency. It has been the longest job interview in world history – one long preparation for your pending defeat as Prime Minister in Denmark. In two and half years’ time, a new Commission and a new President of the European Council will be elected here in the EU. I am willing to bet that you will be a candidate for both posts. This is not for the power, but so that you can come home to your friends here in the EU. So watch out Mr Barroso and Mr Van Rompuy, watch out all of you sitting here ruling and governing without any popular mandate whatsoever. Here is a woman who will stop at nothing to get her way. That is something that the Danish people have experienced in great measure over the past six months. I therefore believe that I can safely say that I speak for the majority of Danes when I say: ‘Ms Thorning-Schmidt, please go home to the EU at last and let us have Denmark back’."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 149(8))"1 "(Uproar in the Chamber)"1
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