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"Mr President, I was very happy that Parliament gave such resounding support to the Ebner report. My own ancestral languages in Scotland – Gaelic and Lowland Scots – have suffered severe discrimination and neglect over a couple of centuries. Indeed, as we know, many of the Gaelic speakers were driven out during the horrible period of the Highland Clearances.
In these circumstances it is a matter for rejoicing that the annual National Gaelic Mod (Am Mòd Nàiseanta Rìoghail) will take place for the one hundredth time in the town of Oban this year. I am very glad to have a constituency office there.
It is a great tragedy that the languages of Duncan Ban MacIntyre and Robert Burns have become more or less foreign languages to the children of Argyllshire and Ayrshire respectively, and other parts of Scotland. These are examples from one country of a universal European problem. I am very glad that at the Convention I had the chance to help put respect for linguistic diversity into the objectives of the Union, if we adopt the draft Constitution. The Charter of Fundamental Rights is helpful too. But we need proactive help and that is what the Ebner report promises. I hope that the Commission will take that up. I am very pleased with the result of that vote and to have taken part in it."@en1
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