Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-16-Speech-3-206"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-05-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Statute and financing of European political parties2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010516.7.3-206"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-05-16-Speech-3-2072
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2000-11-09--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in this debate on a point of order the term ‘nationalists’ has been used, which does no justice to the arguments of the aggrieved parties. My impression is that a number of other matters are involved, the question whether it is legitimate to distribute taxpayers’ money to parties and through government impose rules on parties that strengthen the distrust of citizens of what they see as a political elite. That is a problem. Parties should be bottom-up and not top-down organisations. Real parties do not emerge because the structures of a state require the organisation of a competitive struggle at election time but because there are people with common ideas, interests and activities. That is why it is rather artificial, at a moment when there is no European public opinion, to create parties from above in a forced way. I therefore ask for understanding of the objections which are something other than nationalism and I think that it mainly revolves around the question whether the European Union has the power to do such a thing, or whether it does not have the power, which is why Mr Krarup has already indicated that in that respect we are now on thin ice. I think that if such a measure were ever to be passed, we should all have to be certain that it does not conflict with previously agreed European rules."@en1

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