Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-04-12-Speech-3-255"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-04-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Address by Mr Klestil, President of the Republic of Austria2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000412.9.3-255"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-04-12-Speech-3-2592
lpv:speaker	lp:Nicole Fontaine2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Union pour la démocratie française (1999-07-20--2002-06-16)3 president; Conference of Presidents (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 president; Parliament's Bureau (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 president; European Parliament (1999-07-20--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2002-03-07)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we have now heard you. Thank you for your statement and for the personal convictions you expressed. We have been aware of them for many years; they are strong and we did not doubt them. Nothing would be more dangerous to a human society than for its collective conscience to weaken, for it to become accustomed to the unacceptable and for it to relativise the intolerable. Thank you, Mr President, for your replies a short while ago to our questions, which give us hope that Austria can once again become a full partner in our Union, which it has never ceased to be in legal terms... ... but what we hope, Mr President, is that it will also become so in our minds and, to tell the truth, in our hearts. In a few hours’ time, the group chairmen and I myself will be meeting you again, this time for an informal exchange of views . So I will not comment at any length on what you have just said to us. To conclude this formal sitting, let me simply point out that our vigilance is not directed against the Austrian people as a whole, whom we respect and love and who, as we know and as you reminded us, remain strongly attached to the European Union. Our vigilance is not partisan. We are not trying to impugn anyone’s motives, nor are we unaware of the particular political situation your country found itself in at the last elections. Nor are we interfering, for the European Union is not only a market, it is a community of values, and I am grateful to you, Mr President, for pointing that out again. What happens in one country cannot be a matter of indifference to the others. We are concerned and vigilant because of one fact and one memory. The fact is that a party of a xenophobic persuasion forms part of the Austrian Government, and you said with some force, Mr President, that you understood the anxiety about a possible new upsurge of racism, of intolerance, of xenophobia and of anti-Semitism. The memory is of a time in history that tore Europe apart because peoples, and above all their leaders, did not have the strength to react while there was still time. It is because of that duty to remember that we cannot accept the way that the extreme right is gaining ground."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1 "(Loud applause. Uproar on the far right)"1 "(The formal sitting was closed at 12.30 p.m.)"1 "(Uproar on the far right)"1 "President. –"1 "in camera"1

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