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dcterms:Date	"2012-06-14"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120614.22.4-199-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-06-14-Speech-4-200-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Charles Tannock2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I abstained on the vote on this statement on public consultations and their availability in all EU languages. Of course, it is important that each and every citizen of our Union should have a right to address the institutions in any of the EU official languages, and that must be respected. It is also important that all consultations are given the same treatment so that they are all accessible to the same degree, but I do not support the multilingual system in our institutions, both for MEPs and officials, as this is too expensive and inefficient. I have no love for the EU Tower of Babel and I believe that three working languages would suffice – namely English, French and German. The UN, with 186 member countries, only has six working languages, and the Council of Europe, with 47 member countries – including all the EU Member States – has only two, and yet the EU, at a time of austerity and cuts, still insists on all 23."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; DROI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-29--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2012-03-28--2014-06-30)3 substitute; SEDE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Conservative Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2012-03-28--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Charles Tannock (ECR ). -"1
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