Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-04-05-Speech-2-521-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-04-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Political parties at European level and rules regarding their funding (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20110405.22.2-521-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-04-05-Speech-2-522-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Enrique Guerrero Salom2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-10-07--2014-06-30)3 member; S&D (2009-07-14--2012-01-18)3 substitute; DEVE (2010-11-10--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partido Socialista Obrero Español (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Cariforum — EU Parliamentary Committee (2010-06-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ECON (2010-11-08--2012-01-18)3 member; AFCO (2010-10-20--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2010-11-08--2011-07-31)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Commissioner, Mrs Giannakou, thank you for drawing up this report, which I think will be very helpful in spurring the Commission to make progress in forming a better system for recognising and protecting European political parties. European democracy is genuinely representative democracy. The edifice of representative democracy has remained steady ever since, in the mid-19th century, the expansion of suffrage made real the promise of the liberal revolutions to give the people representation, so that they could control their own destinies. The representative edifice has firm foundations, but from time to time it needs reforms and new ways to express itself with greater quality. An example of that would be the work that Parliament has done on adopting the Citizens’ Initiative. In short, democracy has never survived without free representation, and representation has never been free without plural competition. It is political parties that enable this plural representation. In democracy, the parties express pluralism and are fundamental instruments of political participation: they contribute to shaping public opinion; they offer alternatives, and general and sectoral government programmes; they coordinate and harmonise social interests; and they contribute to communication between the demands of the people and those who govern. As a theorist of political parties has correctly pointed out, parties did not develop to communicate the needs of the rulers to the people, but rather to communicate the aspirations of the citizens to the rulers. We now need this, which has worked at national level, to work at European level. It is therefore a case of providing a framework and opportunities for European political parties to carry out at European level the functions that they have been carrying out in the national arena. The most essential thing to achieving that is for parties to have legal status, and that is what this report is proposing: parties that have a territorial presence and that, at the same time, conduct themselves according to democratic rules; and a differentiation between recognition of the parties and financing, which requires popular support. Finally, we expect the Commission to set in motion the mechanism to perfect the currently imperfect situation of regulation of political parties."@en1
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