Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-02-14-Speech-1-090-000"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, that human beings have wondered about life and death since the dawn of time is something that I can understand, but the European Union’s failure, since the 1970s, to overcome the difficulties of the European patent is really quite hopeless.
Firstly, I would like to commend the work and perseverance of Mr Lehne in this undertaking, and to thank him for the attention he had paid to our Spanish and Italian colleagues. I, too, listened to their arguments, and I completely understand them. However, we are not here today to resolve a linguistic issue. The European Commission proposal of 1 July 2010 is based on the language regime of the European Patent Office, which has proved its effectiveness. However, once again, this linguistic debate is not on the agenda.
Today is about enabling those 25 Member States that wish to make progress by establishing enhanced cooperation to actually do so. Today is about responding to the request of European businesses, which pay 11 times more for their patents than US businesses. Today is about showing that the European Parliament is mature enough to rise above petty squabbles. We will have plenty of time to debate the sensitive political choices ahead of us. However, let us stop stalling and let us instead move forward by giving our support to Mr Lehne’s recommendation on this long, long road towards the European patent."@en1
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