Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-03-09-Speech-3-168"
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"en.20050309.15.3-168"2
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"Mr President, in the referendum on the EU Constitution which was held in the Spanish state, the Basques and Catalans clearly confirmed that we wish to be fully involved in Europe. Within the Hispanic map, the percentage of 'no' votes cast in Euskadi and Catalunya was three times as high as in Spain. Europe must take account of this political reality, especially if the goal is to build a closer and stronger Europe that counts for all the people of Europe.
It would be very undemocratic to neglect the different realities that exist in Europe's stateless nations. We cannot be so hypocritical as to claim plurality in Europe and deny it internally. At a time when several Spanish MEPs have been complaining of alleged discrimination against the Castilian language, in the same period, Manuel Marín, the President of the Spanish Parliament, forbade a Catalan MP from speaking a few words of Catalan in his introductory remarks. Different criteria cannot be applied to equivalent situations. One cannot claim rights, justice or different standards of morality when in Europe and, on the other hand, insist on a pragmatic approach based on financial practicality when in Spain or Italy.
If we are truly committed to multilingualism, if we want the Castilian language to be used at all committee meetings, press conferences, etc, we must first be honest and safeguard everyone's linguistic rights, including those of the Catalans and Basques as well as, for example, the Welsh and Irish."@en1
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"(The speaker continued in Catalan)"1
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