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) Mr President, the Feira Council of 19 and 20 June 2000 showed a certain hypocrisy regarding a goodly number of subjects, and I will cite four of these.
Regarding Austria, which was officially marginalised by the Council: the fourteen Heads of State and Government, having been foolish enough to impose unjustified sanctions, were then stupid enough not to be able to get out of the impasse they had got themselves into.
This matter is particularly serious as it clearly shows that the powers of coercion given to the European Union can easily be used against national democratic expression. We should not forget this.
On the draft Charter of Fundamental Rights, the Heads of State and Government have mostly pretended not to know yet whether they wanted to include social rights and make the document binding in nature. There again, this is pure hypocrisy intended to beguile the opposition.
In fact, the majority would like a comprehensive, binding document as it boils down to silencing the democratic expression of each individual nation, under the pretence of better safeguarding European values.
On the pretext of unifying citizens’ rights, the governments will succeed in taking from the nations the fundamental constitutional ability to define the rights which, for each country, are found at the heart of their own history and culture.
With regard to enlargement, while hoping and praying for a rapid conclusion to negotiations, the Council has been hypocritical enough to erect new barriers before the candidate countries, such as, for example, the Charter itself, which could obviously complicate accession negotiations.
Even on the subject of closer cooperation, which was added to the IGC agenda, the Council has hardly been sincere and has not said what it really meant by this.
Earlier today, at the Constitutional Affairs Committee, I asked Joschka Fischer a question on this subject, but he wriggled out of replying. We will come back to that later."@en1
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