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) Mr President, I apologise to the translators if I spoke too quickly earlier on.
I would like to talk to you about the resignation of Mr Pelinka from the Management Board of the European Monitoring Centre, Vienna. I believe that what happened to Mr Pelinka, a renowned academic respected by the scientific community, is indicative of the true nature of the coalition in power in Austria. The far right, particularly when it is in power, is highly skilled in the art of pushing its opponents to the limit. What happened in the case of Mr Pelinka did not come about by chance or coincidence. It began with slander, he was persecuted by means of an unfair judgement, given by a court answering to the FPÖ, as the current Justice Minister of the FPÖ was Jörg Haider’s lawyer when he sued Mr Pelinka for libel. The work of the Monitoring Centre was then made unbearable by a public pressure campaign against its members.
I believe that Haider is, and we must recognise this, expressing his contempt for the sanctions that the European Union is currently imposing on him as it was when the Portuguese Presidency took the initiative of proposing the nomination of three wise men that he decided to retaliate by demanding a referendum on lifting sanctions, a completely demagogic, populist and anti-European referendum.
We are also talking about a challenge issued by Haider to the Community as a whole. He reminds us that the Monitoring Centre is a creation of the European Union and that our President attended its inauguration three months ago. This is proof, for those who might still have doubts, that we must not negotiate with the far right, as every small victory it achieves strengthens it and makes it more commonplace. If the European Union were to relax its position on Austria, this would not miraculously lead Haider and his friends to defend human rights and relinquish their ideology.
In response, we must give Mr Pelinka our total support. We must also help the Monitoring Centre on a human, political and financial level and finally, the Member States must continue to isolate the Austrian Government and, while supporting the Austrian people, isolate the coalition, which is unacceptable and unfair."@en1
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