Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-09-22-Speech-3-361"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2010-09-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Transatlantic relations: USA travel fee (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"sk"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100922.24.3-361"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-09-22-Speech-3-3622
lpv:speaker	lp:Jaroslav Paška2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair_member_of_the_bureau; EFD (2010-02-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ENVI (2009-07-16--2011-03-08)3 unknown; Slovenská národná strana (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; REGI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2013-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-08--2011-07-31)3 member; ITRE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"After getting rid of the concrete walls and barbed wire fences which separated West Berlin from East, and divided the continent of Europe into an eastern reservation and a western part, we naively assumed that this was the end of the era of paranoid regimes that prevent free people from communicating freely, learning about the world, and travelling. We know that freedom to travel and mutual awareness help people from different corners of the Earth, different civilisations and different cultures to overcome prejudice and lose their fear of the unknown, encouraging the development of trust between nations. I do not know what has happened with our American friends. They have always stood up in defence of freedom and democracy, but perhaps they have gone crazy. On their southern border with Mexico, they have started building the sort of fences that we Europeans managed to remove only recently. They introduce ever more administrative and technical barriers against visitors to their country. Where is this heading, ladies and gentlemen? Perhaps President Obama does not realise it, but from the outside, it looks as if the American administration is trying to turn the US into a sort of fenced off, fully enclosed garden, full of dutifully happy people, like the regime of Kim Jong-il in North Korea. I would like to believe that this is not the case, and we should therefore perhaps explain to our American friends that the fee and the personal data for snooping which they request in return for a visit to their country are simply an enormous shame for a superpower of freedom and democracy such as the United States of America."@en1
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