Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-03-16-Speech-4-286"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-03-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000316.10.4-286"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-03-16-Speech-4-2872
lpv:speaker	lp:Thierry de La Perriere2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; UEN (1999-07-20--2001-01-30)3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2000-11-22)3 member; Delegations to the parliamentary cooperation committees for relations with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia (1999-09-30--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Europe is facing real difficulties today. Like it or not, it is not the path of glory it aspired to be for the citizens of the Member States. It reflects what it is, namely a remote and restrictive machine whose sole purpose seems to be to enact finicky legislative rules obviously aimed at centralisation and standardisation. It is against that background that this year, as ever, we are once again debating human rights in the world and in the Union, accompanied this time by a debate on countering racism in the European Union and the candidate states. That could have allowed us to inject a little ‘soul’ into a system sadly in need of it. But that was not to be. The rapporteur, the Committee on Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs and the plenary have served us up documents that smell of death. These pseudo-defenders of the rights of man have quite simply forgotten that man is not a concept, a point in a political programme. The human being has a dignity, a mission that are far superior, if not contrary, to what is being put before us today. Respect for the human being means recognising that his legitimate rights correspond to legitimate obligations, that he must exercise his freedom responsibly, that his natural dignity presupposes moral points of reference. It is not a question of restricting that freedom but, on the contrary, of becoming aware that man lives within a family and national community, that his humanity imposes rules on him, failing which civilisation becomes synonymous with barbarism. I would not so much say that the European Parliament has missed an opportunity as that it has once again been true to itself, libertarian and, in the final analysis, liberticidal."@en1

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