Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2013-09-10-Speech-2-240-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2013-09-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:More efficient and cost-effective interpretation in the European Parliament (A7-0233/2013 - Esther de Lange)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20130910.39.2-240-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2013-09-10-Speech-2-240-4392
lpv:speaker	lp:Charles Tannock2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, the EU has 28 Member States and 24 official languages. The UN, with 193 Member States, operates with just six, and the 47-Member-State Council of Europe has just two official languages. Working towards a more efficient and cost effective interpretation process is of course welcome, but the recommendations do not offer the radical solution which would be the logical step for an expanding supranational institution such as the EU. Limiting the number of working languages to three – namely French, German and English, and embracing this solution would not be as radical as many in this House would portray it as being. In the majority of cases this is already de facto for many of my colleagues, who make speeches happily in one of those languages in the plenary. Adopting this officially would only serve to bring more transparency and dynamism to the workings of Parliament and send a signal to EU citizens that the EU is serious in its aim to make efficient and budgetary savings. This is certainly something which would be welcome in the UK and by my own London constituents."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; DROI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-29--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2012-03-28--2014-06-30)3 substitute; SEDE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Conservative Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2012-03-28--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Charles Tannock (ECR ). -"1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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