Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-07-03-Speech-3-031"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-07-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Programme of Danish Presidency2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020703.2.3-031"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-07-03-Speech-3-0322
lpv:speaker	lp:Per Gahrton2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Miljöpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, as I hail from Skåne in Southern Sweden, I believe I have no need to waste polite phrases on the Danish Prime Minister, but can speak directly. Why did you choose to implement a xenophobic party’s policy on aliens on the same day as you took over the presidency of the EU? What message are you trying to send with this symbolism? How do you think this is perceived by the rest of the world? Now, Mr Fogh Rasmussen, you are saying great things about enlargement, but how can people take seriously the fact that you wish to open borders for foreigners in the candidate countries when you wish to close the borders to Russians, Africans, Asians and Latin Americans? In the newspaper Bertel Haarder says that the Aliens Act of the Danish Right is a victory for immigrant girls. Now, a foreigner in Denmark must be 24 to bring in his wife from her home country. If a Swede or a Greek living in Denmark wants to bring his 18-year old fiancée from home, there will most likely be no problem. If, however, a Muslim from the Turkish part of Cyprus wants to do so, what will happen then? The country is not yet an EU Member State, but if it becomes one, how will you handle that dilemma? No, is the desire of the Danish Right for enlargement – to use the language of Hans Christian Andersen – not rather a case of “The Emperor’s New Clothes”? You cannot want to drive away so-called aliens and, at the same time, seek to expand freedom of movement in the EU to cover all European countries, some of which are Muslim. In this way, you are constructing a sort of Fortress Europe, a super-imperialistic state, which the Danish people have rejected. However, it is clear that Danish governments usually ignore the Danish people. You are European champions at manipulating referendum results. Is it not going a little too far to try to manipulate the referendum results out of existence?"@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Berlingske Tidende"1 "Irish"1

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