Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-04-12-Speech-3-253"
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"en.20000412.9.3-253"2
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"Mr President, you expressed the wish to speak today at our Parliament’s formal sitting. It has always been the case that any EU Member State Heads of State who express that wish are received among us with the consideration due to their person, the high office they hold and the nation over which they preside.
...and that, before agreeing to what you believed you could not prevent, you demanded and obtained from the political leaders concerned a strong commitment to the values on which the European Union are founded.
It is in that context and in a spirit of profound friendship and respect for the Austrian people that we will listen carefully to the message you wished to pass on to the European Parliament. We have no doubt, Mr President, that it will take account of the very serious concerns our Parliament expressed by an overwhelming majority, on 3 February last. Without further ado, I therefore give you the floor.
It is in that spirit that I now welcome you on behalf of the European Parliament.
At the beginning of this year 2000, the constitution of the present Austrian Government has, as you know, given rise to some strong feelings in all the EU Member States, among their governments as well as their people.
In the case of this Parliament, one question broadly transcends any political or national divergences between its Members, and that is their attachment to the values on which the European Union is founded and their determined resistance to the rise in racist and xenophobic ideologies.
Mr President, we know that you were not in favour of this coalition, in which an extreme right-wing party has an equal share, and that you spared no efforts to find an alternative solution..."@en1
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"(Applause, and protests from the far right)"1
"(As President Klestil prepared to take the floor, many left-wing Members left the Chamber. Interjection from Mrs Muscardini: “So that is democracy, not to give a hearing to speakers...”)"1
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