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"Madam President, this Parliament is like the Tower of Babel, an allegory of the Habsburg Empire, which was full of sycophants. It is the European Union’s attempt to build an international empire based on a unified creed, with federalists, liberals, cosmopolitans and sycophant humanist thinkers.
The Tower was an idea of lunatics, however. Its ultimate failure is attributed to linguistic differences, or what is called ‘multilingualism’ in the European Union. The Corbett report seems to deny the nations of Europe to communicate effectively. Mr Corbett’s idea to draw up Europe as a multilingual document is like waiting for Godot, which is a communicative stagnation.
The report is a way to create a diversion from a real problem. To communicate and understand one another, we need a dialogue, not a monologue. The only instrument for this purpose is, therefore, translation into all 22 official languages. Otherwise we are heading towards communicative chaos.
However, as the translation of my speeches into Polish sometimes does not even render 50% of what I have actually said, my Amendment 2 should therefore be included in the report.
I would urge all Members to vote for amendments that aim to preserve translation into all 22 languages and reject Mr Corbett’s Amendment 1, which has been tabled as the committee amendment on the voting list."@en1
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