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Communicating Europe with Margot Wallstrom

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Subido el 3 de octubre de 2007 por EducaMadrid

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Jacki Davis interviews Margot Wallstrom. Informed dialogue and debate are vital to a healthy European democracy. Citizens have the right to know what EU leaders are proposing and to influence the EU policies. The commission works on closing the communication gap between the EU institutions and the people and engages in public dialogue.

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I don't want to be an American. 00:00:00
I don't want to be an American. 00:00:05
I don't want to be an American. 00:00:08
I've been waiting for a long time. 00:00:10
I think Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland are the best. 00:00:13
Europe is the future. If people love it, that's all. 00:00:18
I don't say yes, I'm European. In my life, there's nothing that makes me say that. 00:00:23
There are no more wars in Europe. Everyone in Europe is fed. 00:00:29
Apart from that, I regard myself as English. 00:00:32
And I look to the parliament down there to make my laws. 00:00:35
The end of the century. They say it was a real Europe. 00:00:40
All the fashion and European customs that are bringing to our country 00:00:44
what they are doing is lowering the quality of life that we have. 00:00:47
It's not possible to control something from Brussels 00:00:51
by a bunch of imbecilic people who are just raising high wages. 00:00:54
We are Europeans because it's much easier to cross borders, to travel. 00:01:00
The currency is common, so it's super easy. 00:01:04
We'll say, for example, our Barcelona. 00:01:07
When Spain says, our Prague. 00:01:10
And when Sweden says, our Vienna. 00:01:13
I think that would mean that we are Europeans. 00:01:16
It's truly a mission impossible because if you think of it, 00:01:46
this is actually a political body that deals with everything 00:01:50
from counting codfish in the Baltic Sea 00:01:53
to trying to intervene to create peace in the Middle East. 00:01:56
So what we have done from the very beginning and through these last couple of years, 00:02:00
a little bit more than two years, 00:02:05
we have tried to start to educate people to listen better, 00:02:07
to put ears on the European Union, to actually explain better. 00:02:11
Isn't that effectively using taxpayers' money 00:02:15
to fund what many people see as pure propaganda for the EU? 00:02:17
My starting point is the following. 00:02:21
Citizens have a right to know. 00:02:23
Important decisions are taken by the European institutions, 00:02:26
by the Council, by the Commission, etc., the European Parliament. 00:02:30
This happens every week. Ministers meet every week. 00:02:34
The Commission proposes things that will affect your life 00:02:37
and everybody else's life in Europe. 00:02:41
I think we counted and we came to 20 member states 00:02:44
where this is part of the curriculum. 00:02:47
But I think that it has to be part of the curriculum in every member state. 00:02:49
And you don't see that as propaganda? 00:02:53
No, definitely not. 00:02:55
What's the difference? 00:02:56
Well, the difference is that you try to influence somebody 00:02:57
to believe in a very specific idea or something. 00:03:00
This is like teaching people about how the United Nations works. 00:03:03
I know there have been many initiatives to listen, 00:03:07
to involve the public in the debate. 00:03:09
A certain amount of cynicism, though. 00:03:11
OK, you're going to listen. 00:03:12
But then when you've heard what we have to say, 00:03:14
what are you going to do with it? 00:03:16
Well, I can give you a very concrete example. 00:03:18
If you remember rightly, this Commission was very much criticised 00:03:20
for only having a business agenda, 00:03:24
that we were not broad enough in our scope 00:03:26
and in the way we looked at things. 00:03:29
And a lot of people said that this is all about 00:03:31
making a market out of the whole European Union and nothing else. 00:03:34
And then there was a very lively debate, 00:03:39
and we met also in the Barroso Commission for a seminar 00:03:42
where we also looked at, for example, the Eurobarometer opinion polls, 00:03:46
and we really discussed the kind of debate that was taking place in Europe. 00:03:50
And after that, we established something that we called a citizen's agenda. 00:03:54
We've just celebrated the European Day of Languages, 00:03:59
and I thought in honour of that that I should attempt, 00:04:02
and apologies to all French native speakers, 00:04:04
to put at least one question to you in French, 00:04:07
and it's going to be about language. 00:04:09
And I've actually prepared myself for it. 00:04:10
I think it's important to create a more balanced language regime. 00:04:37
But I also think that there is something very practical, 00:04:44
and we need to have resources for the budget, 00:04:50
and also to do it, 00:04:54
because now there are 23 official languages in the European Union, 00:04:56
and it takes a lot of resources, 00:05:04
a lot of people who work as interpreters to work with languages. 00:05:07
Commissioner, thank you very much indeed. 00:05:15
Thank you. 00:05:18
Thank you very much. 00:05:20
Thank you very much. 00:05:21
Thank you very much. 00:05:23
How was that? 00:05:26
It's getting more complicated by the minute. 00:05:28
How was that? 00:05:32
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The European Union
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Fecha:
3 de octubre de 2007 - 15:04
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European Commission
Duración:
05′ 43″
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