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"Mr President, Mrs de Veyrac’s report seeks to extend the concept of heritage and the criteria for the selection of national heritage sites in particular. The UEN Group will vote in favour of this report.
No one can question the need to extend this concept to sites which are not just monuments, natural sites or moveable property. There is clearly a great deal of ethnographic data which can be collected and protected as world heritage. The importance of musical heritage or literature in the oral tradition may be emphasised, the task of collection, analysis and protection of which still remains to be carried out in a good many countries.
This heritage, which goes beyond the traditional concept which often embraces only monuments or sites, is often a factor in the daily lives of the people living on this earth. It is this presence and permanence in culture and daily life which should define the very concept of heritage, as indeed Mrs Prets mentioned.
I should therefore like to emphasise, for example, particularly here in Strasbourg, the importance which our fellow citizens attach to their national currencies and their determination to consider it as a part of their heritage.
The German magazine
recently published a survey showing that 70% of Germans are committed to the Deutschmark and wish to retain it. This percentage is an average, because in eastern Germany the rate is as much as 80%.
The French Finance Minister, responsible for implementing the withdrawal of the franc, recently published on his website a very interesting survey on the French people’s commitment to their currency. This is, admittedly, a ‘reverse diagnosis’ because they were, of course, asked their opinion on the euro and not on the franc. Nonetheless, the response was overwhelming. Only 26% of the French have confidence in this artificial currency. I think it worth informing you of the real state of affairs, given that this is something that does not appear to have been taken into consideration or to have any influence over the European Parliament.
In Great Britain, which has for the moment decided to protect its national heritage in the form of the pound sterling, only 14% of young people in the 18-24 age range wish to give up the pound. By this standard, the 45% of Danes who gave a yes answer would make the recent referendum in Denmark look like a vote in favour of the single currency.
Europeans are committed to their own currencies just as they are committed to their own values, their own nations, their own natural heritage sites, their own languages and their own cathedrals. This is how national currencies should be protected, as if they were part of world heritage. This is the thrust of the amendment I have tabled on behalf of my group and which I urge you to support."@en1
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