Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-12-13-Speech-1-092"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Turkey's progress towards accession2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041213.10.1-092"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-12-13-Speech-1-0932
lpv:speaker	lp:Georgios Karatzaferis2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-21--2007-09-25)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-09-25)3 member; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Laikos Orthodoxos Synagermos - G. Karatzaferis (2004-07-20--2005-11-23)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2007-09-25)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, if the ghosts of Adenauer, de Gaulle and Spaak were in the House, they would shiver merely at the idea of what we are debating here. Not that we are deciding to allow Turkey to join the European Union. It is true that, if the United States did not want Turkey to join Europe, no such question would be on the agenda today. The question which arises therefore is institutional: are we an independent political entity or are we a trailer hitched to the American truck? What is Turkey? Since when has Turkey been in Europe? Ask your own children. Ask your children who study geography if it is in Europe or in Asia. Ask the priest who married you if Turkey is in Europe. Which brings me to the Eurlings report: the original differs from the report we are debating today just as the Holy Bible differs from the Koran. And while we are on the subject of the Holy Bible, may I remind you of the multitude of races housed many centuries ago in the Tower of Babel. It fell. If you too wish Europe to fall, bring 80 million Turks with a different culture and different religion into Europe. When de Gaulle built Europe with the other Europeans, he said that Europe was determined by her geography, her Greco-Roman culture and the Christian religion. So now we are going to bring the Turks into Europe. That will be a crime for Europe. Do not commit it."@en1

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