Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-01-18-Speech-3-224-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2012-01-18"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120118.23.3-224-000"2
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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 unknown; Democraten 66 (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, this debate is actually not about Hungary and it is certainly not about Mr Orbán. This is actually a test for Europe. This is a question that we have to put to ourselves. Are we willing to defend our common values when it really comes down to it, when those values are under pressure? Can the rules that we have laid down in the treaties, in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, in European legislation, actually be enforced? That is the question that we have to answer here today. As Mr Verhofstadt, the leader of our Group, said, this is not about objections to single measures. It is about the accumulated impact of all those measures together, which justifies the activation of the Article 7 procedure. I am actually quite surprised at the attitude of the EPP Group, because if it is true that all the allegations against the Hungarian Government are lies and invented by the media, then it should embrace the Article 7 procedure as an opportunity to prove them all wrong. I also hope – and here I am looking at the other side of the House – that we will get the support of the Socialist Group for the proposal of the Liberal Group and the Greens to use the Article 7 procedure. Finally, I think that this debate should not distract from the fact that there are violations in nearly all Member States of the European Union. Just as the debate on Greece was more about exposing the weakness of the eurozone as a whole, the debate today is not about Hungary: it is about the values of Europe, and whether we are willing to defend them."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Sophia in 't Veld (ALDE ). -"1
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