Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-01-13-Speech-2-366"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-01-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Cultural diversity2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040113.16.2-366"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-01-13-Speech-2-1542
lpv:speaker	lp:Koenraad Dillen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2003-07-03--2004-07-19)3 member; NA (2003-06-16--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Vlaams Blok (2003-06-16--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (2003-07-02--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". I come from a country, Flanders, whose culture was crippled for decades because of domination by Belgian French-speakers. Even today, the Dutch culture and language, particularly in the Flemish periphery around Brussels, is treated with disdain by the numerically dominant French-speaking minority. Even within the EU, Dutch is at times ignored; it has, for example, disappeared as a working language within such institutions as the European trademarks bureau. I am therefore well placed to know that European institutions are guilty themselves when there is talk of not respecting cultural diversity or when it is stated that linguistic diversity should also be respected. This report, which contains a huge number of praiseworthy recommendations, has come none too soon, and I do indeed hope that the good intentions, following the enlargement of the EU, to protect all languages that are spoken in a Europe with 25 Member States, will this time not remain an empty promise. I stress that even minority languages, such as Welsh and Breton deserve to be fostered with European support. Europe should, where culture is concerned, put its own house in order first before seeking to take the moral high ground on behalf of the entire world."@en1

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