Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-12-12-Speech-1-115"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-12-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Land law in Valencia2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051212.16.1-115"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-12-12-Speech-1-1162
lpv:speaker	lp:Ignasi Guardans Cambó2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; AFCO (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 substitute; LIBE (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 unknown; Convergència Democràtica Catalunya (2004-07-20--2009-04-22)3 substitute; CULT (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-04-22)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, please allow me first of all to congratulate the rapporteur, Mrs Fourtou, on the work she has done, while regretting that that work was then altered during the final process of approving certain amendments, thus undermining what was originally a reasonable report. In the end, what we are being presented with today, ladies and gentlemen, is a mixture of irresponsible populism on the part of Members who wish to satisfy their fellow citizens resident in Spain at any cost and on the part of Spanish Members who have decided to play local or regional politics in the European Parliament — from one side and from the other: you have just seen a demonstration of this. That combination of two kinds of irresponsible populism leads to aberrations such as those which may be voted for here if this text is not modified. It is sad to see the European Parliament turned into a regional legislator, entirely distorting the principle of subsidiarity and telling an Autonomous Community what it must do, how it must do it, how it must legislate, when it can grant planning permission and under what conditions. I understand and agree with the criticisms of this law, unquestionably, and I naturally agree with the criticisms of its application by the Valencian Government — of the law and of its application. The European Parliament, however, ladies and gentlemen, is not the Sanctuary of Lourdes, to which people can resort when all hope has run out everywhere else. This is a serious institution and all that is achieved by bringing a resolution of this kind here is to create a false image to the citizens, since resolutions are approved that will be entirely sterile, because it is in the Valencian Parliament that this issue will be resolved, and this creates a reputation which in no way enhances the work of this House nor increases the respect that we are asking the citizens to feel for our work. I therefore entirely agree with the criticisms of the land-planning situation in Valencia: the criticisms of the law and the criticisms of the government. Dealing with it in this House is like protesting here about delays on the London underground. I do not believe that the European Parliament is the proper place to do this and what we are doing, by approving a document like this, is distorting the institutional system itself."@en1

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