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"(DA) Madam President, the work of developing the Amsterdam Treaty for even greater union is commencing under the Finnish Presidency. As things stand, the next treaty will be even worse than the one we already have. It will provide for more majority decisions whereby ministers and civil servants are able to tone down the democracy in our Member States. Decisions which today are taken in publicly elected open assemblies will pass to secret committees within the Commission and the Council. We will have much more Brussels and less democracy. That the new treaty is to be called the Paris Treaty is unfair on the city of cities. The power which we as voters are losing is mainly being transferred to the Commission and the Council, although the Parliament is taking over the right of veto from the parliaments of the Member States. The individual States may no longer prevent the adoption of a law or recommend that a law be amended. A democratic era is being superseded by a bureaucratic era in which the voters are being driven into a siding. It is to prevent this watering down of democracy that we have created a new group: the Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities. Democracy, because power must lie with the publicly elected in our Member States and because the necessary common legislation must also be controlled democratically. Plurality, because we wish to maintain diverse identities and cultures and to counter euro-nationalism and its euro-anthems and common passports, currency, policing and defence. We no longer want centralism and unification, but decentralisation and freedom. We do not want the EU to be a new state, but rather a practical collaboration on problems which we cannot solve individually. The EU must be a help and not a hindrance."@en1
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