Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-12-15-Speech-5-031"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-12-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Prosperity and intergenerational solidarity2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001215.2.5-031"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-12-15-Speech-5-0322
lpv:speaker	lp:John Purvis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, my father, Robert Purvis, is 90 and not too well just now. He is much of the reason why I am here – an MEP, a Scotsman, a European. In the early 1930s he spent much time in Germany. He had good German friends. He witnessed and worried about the rise of Nazism. While I was very small he was away for long periods, parachuted into southern Serbia to support the brave fight of the royalist Serbs against Nazism. Next he parachuted into the Hautes-Alpes of France to fight with the Maquis and prepare that part of Europe for liberation. I have photographs of him as the tricolour was raised anew in Mont-Dauphin and Briançon. Immediately after the war he went back to Germany to help restore agriculture and food supplies in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. My brother and I joined him there. We played in the rubble of Hamburg, we made good German friends in our turn. On my first day in this Parliament, in 1979, one of our then German colleagues approached me. "Are you Purvis?" "Yes." "I remember rocking you on my knee in your kilt in Hamburg in 1946. We so respected your father," he said. "He could have taken advantage of us but he didn't. He did all he could fairly to share out scarce resources and restore our country." Father is in his 90s. I am in my 60s, my children in their 30s, my grandchildren between 0 and 5 – four generations of a Scottish and a European family. It is this European Union, this Parliament, that are our families' guarantee that the peace and security for which my father has fought and worked in his lifetime will indeed continue for future generations – the solidarity of generations."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1 "Purvis (PPE-DE )."1

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