Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-12-01-Speech-3-176"
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"en.20041201.16.3-176"2
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"Mr President
: sports and citizenship. This was the slogan of the Catalan autonomous government during the second Spanish Republic. Sports are an instrument of social cohesion and social inclusion, and also an instrument of community identification. For these reasons we have to promote sports practice and a sports social organisation.
For stateless nations, community identification through sports becomes very difficult. In the UK this is solved through the existence of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland national teams. In Catalonia we have several national teams that cannot compete in international competitions. Last summer the Catalan national roller hockey team was allowed to participate in the ‘B’ World Championship in Macau. Catalonia was the winner and was supposed to move up automatically to the ‘A’ World Championship. However, the intervention of the Spanish state changed the votes so our national team was not recognised at the meeting in the USA last week.
That is a bad example of the intervention of a nation-state with a sports federation in a world series."@en1
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"esport i ciutadania"1
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