Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-11-24-Speech-2-303"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-11-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Multi-annual programme 2010-2014 regarding the area of freedom, security and justice (Stockholm Programme) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20091124.32.2-303"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-11-24-Speech-2-3042
lpv:speaker	lp:Sophia in 't Veld2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; ALDE (2009-07-20--2014-06-30)3 member; FEMM (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 unknown; Democraten 66 (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ECON (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-08--2010-01-27)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; LIBE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"First of all, I welcome the warm words the Council has spoken about the cooperation with Parliament, but I should prefer to see it taking on board Parliament’s recommendations. After all, like Mr Albrecht, I note that the Council is actually turning a deaf ear, to some extent, and simply continuing to go its own way, whilst Parliament is working hard to take a position, without this subsequently ending up in the Council programme. My second point is the one illustrated very well by my colleague Mrs Hennis-Plasschaert. I should like to remind Parliament, particularly the two large groups, that equality is indivisible. We cannot give a bit of equality to some groups and not to others. In the past, the State would interfere in people’s choice of partner and ban marriages between people of certain religions and between people of different races. Fortunately, those days are gone; and so, in my opinion, no Member State of the European Union should be refusing to recognise a marriage legally contracted in another Member State, and that includes marriages between two people of the same sex. Therefore, I would appeal to the two large groups to withdraw the compromise by which they seek to weaken the rights of homosexual couples. Here, I am looking in particular at our friends in the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament. This is the 21st century, and I believe that all European citizens, irrespective of racial origin, religion, age or sexual orientation, deserve our protection. It is high time Parliament recognised this for once."@en1
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