Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-07-07-Speech-4-069-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-07-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Modification of the Act concerning the election of the Members of the European Parliament (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"cs"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110707.4.4-069-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-07-07-Speech-4-070-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Edvard Kožušník2
lpv:spokenAs	member; PECH (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; IMCO (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; JURI (2009-07-21--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Občanská demokratická strana (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, my fellow Member and friend, Mr Méndez de Vigo, if I may say that, for he is certainly my friend and I have a great affinity for his country, lives in the mountains. A large number of the 500 million voters in the European Union live in the valleys, and voter turnout continually drops year after year. I think that this is a major problem for the European Union, since the European Parliament is the only institution which is elected directly by the citizens. The legitimacy conferred upon this Chamber by the citizens in these elections is decreasing year after year. When I read about the individual measures, I have the sense that precisely this essence, in other words the citizen within the framework of the European Union, will be lost. Measures are proposed here in Parliament, and yet no one asks the citizens what they themselves want from the EU. A proposal has been engineered concerning the creation of a single, EU-wide electoral district, the MEPs from which will be even more remote from their citizens than the MEPs elected in the Member States today. Let us therefore attempt instead to get closer to the citizens, let us not dream up plans for EU-wide electoral districts, let us strengthen direct democracy and let us rather allow the citizens themselves to decide more often. Let us consider how we can make it possible for them to take part in elections, for example by means of the Internet."@en1
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