Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-01-20-Speech-4-187-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-01-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Explanations of vote2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110120.14.4-187-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-01-20-Speech-4-188-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Morten Messerschmidt2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; AFCO (2009-07-20--2012-01-18)3 substitute; AGRI (2009-07-16--2011-12-13)3 member; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair_member_of_the_bureau; EFD (2010-02-16--2012-01-26)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2009-09-16--2012-03-13)3 substitute; IMCO (2009-07-16--2011-04-04)3 unknown; Dansk Folkeparti (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2012-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, there is no doubt that Belarus is something of a headache for Europe, and it is right that we should take every opportunity to criticise the regime as – fortunately – the last Communist dictatorship. We have a saying in Denmark that those who live in glasshouses should not throw stones, and therefore it is perhaps worth taking a look at what the EU looks like from the point of view of Belarus. Well, the EU is governed by a Commission made up of officials with absolutely no popular mandate, and it is only this Commission, made up of people with no popular movement behind them, no one to report to and no mandate from the citizens, that can table proposals. Once those proposals have been put forward and adopted, who is it who, with enormous political influence, ultimately decides how the EU legislation is to be implemented in the Member States? Again, it is people who have not been democratically elected, it is judges who sit at a nice comfortable distance from reality. The same can be said about this Parliament, where the vast majority are very comfortable inside the glass palaces where they have been placed, with no one to answer to at all and no understanding of the enormous concerns, opposition and agitation there is among the European citizens. If we look at the EU from Belarus’s point of view, we may see many frightening similarities to the dictatorships that we are trying to fight against."@en1
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