Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-15-Speech-3-045"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights, racism, xenophobia and antisemitism2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000315.2.3-045"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-15-Speech-3-0462
lpv:speaker	lp:Paul Marie Coûteaux2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (1999-09-30--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2001-03-14)3 member; UEN (1999-07-20--2001-03-14)3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-10-04--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, there is something rather pathetic in our determination to link human rights to the European project whose very logic questions and even threatens those rights. In our opinion, human rights cannot be envisaged without a political society and, in particular, without this supreme form of the peaceful political society which is the nation, in terms of both civil peace and balance between nations, and therefore international peace. Yet Europe is trying to build itself without this basic element and even to destroy this through its two fundamental aspects, namely and sovereignty. It is not by chance that the Declaration of Human Rights coincided in France with the affirmation of national sovereignty. De Gaulle rightly said that the first human right was national sovereignty for the simple reason that there is no point in having rights without a political society which is free from feudalism and empires. This society must therefore enjoy popular and national sovereignty which is precisely what the European project is slowly but surely destroying. We also consider it impossible to combat racism, antisemitism or xenophobia without making people into citizens and without detaching them, at least in political terms, from their membership of ethnic groups, or minorities to use the current term. We are seeing the re-emergence of this minority concept, not only in various reports of the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs, but also, very dangerously, in our own policies, such as that conducted in Kosovo. If the concept of ethnic groups and minorities is re-established, this will take us down a dangerous road towards individual membership rather than political and national membership. This Pandora’s box will ultimately destroy our continent which is why we feel it is pathetic to crow about human rights in a Community which is threatening, some time in the future, to take us into the worst decline."@en1
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