Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-07-06-Speech-4-351"

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dcterms:Date	"2000-07-06"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000706.13.4-351"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-07-06-Speech-4-3522
lpv:speaker	lp:Nicole Thomas-mauro2
lpv:spokenAs	member; UEN (1999-07-20--2001-01-30)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-30--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-10-04--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2000-11-22)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-30--2001-01-30)3
lpv:translated text	". – (FR) I reject the Karas report in its entirety. While the aim of familiarising Europeans with their future currency is a perfectly legitimate one, given that the decision to give up national currencies has already been taken (in conditions which I deplore), I am adamant in rejecting the propaganda this text puts forward in support of what Mr Karas terms “an essential, identity-building factor in the process of European integration”. This text at least has the merit of exposing the outrageous untruth to which the supporters of a federal Europe resorted when they asked the French to ratify the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. At that time, the single currency was presented as a purely technical instrument to improve the operation of the economy in relation to the dollar and the yen, and as an operation that was perfectly neutral in terms of national sovereignty. How far we were then from seeing it as the key element in the process of integration! This text will be an essential weapon, let us have no doubt, for all the people in Great Britain, Sweden and Denmark fighting to safeguard their national democracies. The euro, even though its supporters in these countries deny it today, is in fact the instrument of warfare of a federal Europe rejected by the overwhelming majority of its peoples. So when the honourable Members reject the amendment tabled by William Abitbol, simply asking that this integrationist objective be clearly stated in the Commission’s communication programmes, they are contributing to a propaganda operation which their voters will most certainly punish them for. The resolution of the Karas report claims that women for some reason do not share the general enthusiasm which should have greeted the implementation of the euro. This smacks of the unpleasant tones of revolutionary propagandists of every age, seeing reactionary plots between the cloth and the women in every household rejecting the bright revolutionary future. It seems not to have occurred to anyone that it is perhaps because of their day-to-day experience of economics that women are more than reluctant about the transition to the euro. This is a despicable attitude, which reveals the dictatorship of the orthodox thinking which involves branding the men or women that oppose the euro, or who merely show some reluctance, as ignorant, illiterate or uneducated. This is where blind federalism takes us!"@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Thomas-Mauro (UEN ),"1 "in writing"1

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