Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-18-Speech-3-080"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-06-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation of the European Council following the Irish referendum (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080618.2.3-080"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-06-18-Speech-3-0812
lpv:speaker	lp:Esko Seppänen2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CONT (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-21--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Vasemmistoliitto (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; BUDG (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Democracy literally means the power of the people. There cannot be democracy without the people and it is not good for the people to be without democracy. In Ireland the people were able to vote on the new constitution, the Treaty of Lisbon. That was democracy, and the Irish voted no on behalf of all the other nations. It accounted for 53.4% of the votes, with 46.6% voting yes. In Ireland they did not want the EU moving in the direction of a federation, or becoming militarised, or a further shift of power towards the big countries. The federation idea is promoted by men and women who are poor democrats and poor losers. They have begun to revive the body by force. They say that the small countries are not needed if they will not comply with the very real authority of the big ones. This way they perpetrate the misconception of EU democracy. The Irish are denounced for the way they exercised their powers but no one is laughing at the Hungarians, although the parliament there voted yes even before the unreadable treaty had been submitted to it. The decision of the Irish people is democracy, but that of the Hungarian Parliament is not. The desire to have a constitution for the EU does not come from the needs of the people but from the will to shore up the power of the elite. Without referendums it will be a coup – in both the small and the big countries."@en1

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