Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-06-13-Speech-4-047"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-06-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:eEurope 2002: Accessibility of Public Web Sites and their Content2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020613.3.4-047"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-06-13-Speech-4-0482
lpv:speaker	lp:Reino Paasilinna2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue/Finlands Socialdemokratiska Parti (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank Commissioner Liikanen again for his excellent presentation, which was also socially sound, as well as the rapporteur, Mr Belder, for his sterling work. On-line services for all is the European principle on which we compete with the Americans. Unless everyone is involved our society will flag. Numerous special groups, such as the disabled, the elderly, single parents, the poor, the unemployed, and so on, are in this position. The number of old people is increasing. Even we in the European Union may shortly be going around in blinkers. Technical barriers must be removed. That can be dealt with by the engineers, just as long as there is the political will. Finances are not a barrier. There exist different solutions, for example, in Sweden and Finland, but everyone, ourselves included, must aspire to the Liikanen objective. It is important to make it easy to access the web. Hard copy texts today are already too difficult so for many they will be too difficult on a screen too, but this is a measure of democracy, a measure of Europe, Europe’s gauntlet of competition for others to pick up. The extent to which our democracy has developed and matured will be measured by how democratic we are on the web. Then it will not be a question of accessibility but whether we are included, whether we can participate actively, and whether we are able to bring our own input to the web. Democracy is not a one-way process, as it can easily be on the web. The elderly, the disabled and all our citizens, the special groups in particular, all must be able to participate and bring their own input to the web. We therefore have to aspire to that. If that does not happen democracy will be distorted."@en1
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