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"Mr President, I would like to begin my speech by turning to the benches of this Parliament and urging certain Members to feel concerned at the lack of attention that our male colleagues pay to women’s rights in this Chamber, in which there are 30 women for
5 men. I wonder if, bearing this figure in mind, we really had the right to lecture people in New York and to advocate women’s rights in such a vigorous way. After this introduction, with which I am sure almost everyone will agree, I shall say a few things that certain Members present will be less pleased to hear.
I think that there were two problems inherent in the debates in New York: one of content and one of form. For a Union delegation to experience only two problems is quite reasonable, but they are crucial ones. The first concerns the tendency of delegations to speak on behalf of our Parliament. It should be pointed out that one does not speak on behalf of a legislative Assembly, but on behalf of an executive! In fact, the legislative body can express its will only through its votes and no delegate from our Assembly has the right to speak on its behalf: they are only entitled to speak on their own behalf and they are only delegates from the point of view of protocol.
This playing to the Assembly’s gallery was expressed in New York by an extremist minority, which is trying to impose a Malthusian policy. A palpable threat was made by our so-called representatives towards Poland, a free and sovereign country. This threat also involved insults being made.
The threat lay in the fact that, as was pointed out just now, it was suggested to the Polish Minister that, if he did not accept the will of the so-called delegates of the European Parliament, Poland’s membership process would be slowed down. You can imagine that, for a country such as Poland, this pressure to align itself, imposed by the forces of the Amsterdam pact, presents a terrible image.
The insult lay in the fact that the Polish Minister was compared to an Ayatollah, simply because he was advocating family values and refused to accept a Malthusian policy.
To conclude, Mr President, let us point out once again that joining the European Union is conditional upon compliance with the Treaty criteria and on the assent of Parliament, not the personal whims of some of its Members."@en1
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