Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-12-15-Speech-2-135"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2009-12-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Question Hour with the President of the Commission2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20091215.13.2-135"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-12-15-Speech-2-1362
lpv:speaker	lp:Marine Le Pen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EMPL (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Front national (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; NA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; INTA (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Canada (2009-09-16--2010-11-14)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the European Commission, in response to the referendum in Switzerland on minarets, has gone to the lengths of making a statement that is disturbing and ambiguous, to say the least. It felt it necessary to reaffirm, for the benefit of those Member States that might be tempted to take similar decisions, the need to ‘respect fundamental rights such as freedom of religion’. This thinly veiled threat requires some explaining on your part, when opinion polls show that the vast majority of Europeans would have voted in such a referendum had it been an option in their respective countries. Mr Barroso, do the EU Member States have the right or not to hold a referendum for their people that is identical in every way to the one held on 29 November in Switzerland? Would the Commission oppose or not the sovereign decision of these peoples if they were to vote as the people of Switzerland did? If, as we believe, the European Union is today more totalitarian than democratic, it is high time it was acknowledged."@en1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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