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In the name of the democratic Europe we want to build, we reject the report. By resorting again to the means and objectives used for the Charter of Fundamental Rights in order now to draft a constitution, the Union is persisting in constructing a Europe that is made neither by the people nor for them, be they citizens of the Member States or the candidate countries.
It is not built for the people, for there is not a single word on the social content of Europe. Like a charter that gives precedence to entrepreneurial freedom and ownership, without protecting Europe’s 62 million poor and 18 million unemployed, we are now talking about political reinforcement of the liberal Europe of Maastricht. A genuine social constitution ought to bring together, from the top down, the best acquired rights for work, women, immigrants and citizens.
Nor is it built by the people, despite a few hypocritical allusions to possible future referenda, because, once again, a few institutional delegations are to decide the fate of 385 million individuals. European general assemblies of the social movement would have allowed us to make progress towards a genuine charter of the rights of peoples and workers.
Everything has been done to stage a sanitised debate between supporters of federalism and supporters of sovereignty. That is all the easier when social issues are not addressed. We reject this choice as the wrong one and, like the social movement, call for a different charter for a different Europe."@en1
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