Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-01-17-Speech-3-063"
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"Mr President, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, Mr President of the Commission, as a German-speaking Belgian, and hence a neighbour, it gives me pleasure to welcome the German Presidency of the Council, for we know of your commitment to Europe.
I can speak from my personal experience as a frontier-dweller when I say that I had the good fortune to have a multilingual and multicultural upbringing, and that it is Europe that has given us the freedom to live this diversity, a freedom that we have used to bring people together in their day-to-day lives, at work, in education and at leisure too. We have also made use of such European programmes as Interreg, Leonardo and Socrates, so that, on the frontiers, regions have come into being that are constituted as European, and that will be the prescription for the future too. It is not behind closed doors, but among people together, that Europe comes into being.
Back home in Belgium, our Prime Minister Martens once told us not to allow anyone to prevent us from building bridges; that is what we have to do – build bridges between the twenty-seven Member States. I believe that you in particular, Madam President-in-Office, have a particular awareness of what is meant by the old and the new Europe.
I also hope that we pro-Europeans will be able to answer the public's many questions and will not leave this task to those who preach only disappointment or intolerance. We are on your side, and we wish your presidency much success."@en1
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