Where is the video of Klaus’ speech? (updated: here it is!)

Posted by brusselsblogger on 25/02/09
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I went to Europarl TV this weekend to watch the speech of Czech President Klaus in the European Parliament. But to my surprise I didn’t find any full video of the speech. The only material available in this context on Europarl TV is a short editorial video about the speech (which is the video you see above Blogactiv/Wordpress and EuroparlTV seem not to work together, you have to click on the link to see the video).

Now you can think about Klaus and his EU opinions what you want (and I’m certainly not a Klaus supporter). But he addressed nevertheless the European Parliament and people should have the possibility to judge themselves.

Ironically, I think that a video of the full speech of Klaus could help Europarl TV increase its not-so-great  number of viewers :)

Update 24/02/2009: The video can indeed be viewed on the website of the European Parliament. I have uploaded it to YouTube and you can view it here:

Update 25/02/2009: Apparently the video below that I put on YouTube only contains the introduction by Hans-Gert Pöttering. For the moment please view the full speech directly on the EP site (click on “Formal Sitting – Czech republic” and then “Vaclav Klaus” in the speakers box).

–> Watch the full speech here: http://www.vimeo.com/3377065 (aarg, it’s in Czech now)

10 Responses to Where is the video of Klaus’ speech? (updated: here it is!) »»

  1. Comment by Dániel Antal | 2009/02/23 at 20:14:21

    Censorship! Censorship! It must have been the pseudo-Communist ex-Soviet agents in the EP who did not want Mr Klaus’s voice be heard! We must start a samizdat version of EuroParl :)

  2. Comment by Steve | 2009/02/24 at 10:21:25

    Hi Brusselsblogger. You can watch the speech, download it even, at the link below. Just choose “Formal sitting – Czech Republic” from the list of subjects.
    http://www.europarl.europa.eu/wps-europarl-internet/frd/vod/player?date=20090219
    Enjoy!

  3. Comment by Chris | 2009/02/24 at 19:23:50

    Hi,
    Europartv does not record full speeches. But the general EP website has recordings of all plenary sessions in full. Klaus’ speech is here
    http://www.europarl.europa.eu/wps-europarl-internet/faces/vod/player.jsp?date=20090219&askedDiscussionNumber=6&language=OR

  4. Comment by brusselsblogger | 2009/02/24 at 22:58:13

    Steve & Chris, many thanks for the links, exactly what I was looking for!

    (Video is currently processed by YouTube, will upload tomorrow here.)

    While I understand that the live video archives might be out of the scope of EuroparlTV I think it would make it much easier for citizens to get all the videos in one place (especially the high profile speeches). Something for the next upgrade :)

  5. Comment by brusselsblogger | 2009/02/25 at 13:31:01

    Video is now embedded above!

  6. Comment by Chris | 2009/02/25 at 21:59:41

    Hi, It seems the video that you put on youtube is only the opening by President Pöttering – you probably used “download speech” instead of “download debate”.

  7. Comment by tatra | 2009/02/26 at 02:07:36

    OK, but… that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv34I-u5vb0 is the link to Hans-Gert Pottering speech…
    Almost full speech of Vaclav Klaus you can find here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XjD9ApJi0Y (17’28”)

  8. Comment by brusselsblogger | 2009/02/26 at 08:24:28

    Hi Chris, you are right. The video was already nearly 100 MB so I was in the impression it must be the full speech.

    I now downloaded the speech itself but YouTube doesn’t allow me to upload it because it’s too long. Will check out other sharing sites which allow longer videos. For the moment, people have to click through directly to the EP site.

  9. Comment by brusselsblogger | 2009/02/26 at 12:50:38

    The full speech video is now also available here: http://www.vimeo.com/3377065

  10. Comment by brusselsblogger | 2009/02/26 at 13:20:39

    I give up :)

    Just noted the video is not with EN interprepation. Watch it (in all languages) on the EP site.


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