Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-03-20-Speech-4-036"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-03-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:War in Iraq2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030320.2.4-036"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-03-20-Speech-4-0372
lpv:speaker	lp:Alexandros Baltas2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-03-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, this war was a foregone conclusion. Popular protest was ignored and UN backing dispensed with. Question one: where to now? Where is the world going and where do we stand, as representatives of the people and as responsible men and women, simply men and women, witnessing these highly dangerous developments? Question two: if this dangerous turn of events is merely, I repeat met by our wishes and/or intervention for this war to end as quickly as possible, what next? What other foregone conclusions will be applied using the same with us again hoping they will end quickly? President Bush maintains that he is fighting the dictator and the dictatorship, which he compares with the democracy which he and all of us serve. Question three: is our democracy so superior that we have to despise the reactions of people all over the world, trample all over international law and dismiss the contempt shown for the UN and its Security Council? Is this the difference between democracy and dictatorship? Is this the difference between dictators and democrats? Question four: this old Europe, as Mr Rumsfeld so disparagingly calls it, is making a huge effort to demonstrate that, with peace, democracy and solidarity, it can move forward and set the world an example in how to resolve international differences peacefully. Are we going to allow plans or foregone conclusions about its divisions or weakening unity to be imposed on us on the long hard road towards reconstructing our future by being tolerant and relaxing our reactions? I have posed four questions which bring me to a very simple conclusion. Forceful reaction to friends and allies dragging the world to ruin on the grounds of the misunderstood interests of a superpower which has lost the plot and asks no more than that we should bungle along with it! We too have responsibilities for this world, rooted in the democracy we serve and defend. Down with war! Long live peace between nations!"@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause)"1 "merely"1 "modus operandi"1 "responsible"1

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