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"The Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities is voting against Gil-Robles Gil-Delgado’s report on enhanced cooperation. The report proposes abolishing the right of veto, which would in reality mean that countries which are very keen on further integration could forge ahead without having broad democratic support. The ulterior motive is to be able to continue the development towards ‘ever closer union’ without being hampered by the enlargement to which the EU countries have committed themselves. Enhanced cooperation would cause most policies, including the most sensitive ones, to be centralised to a still greater degree than they are already. In this way, Mr Gil-Robles proposes discontinuing the common foreign and security policy.
We consider, however, that future development will increase the need for far more varied and flexible cooperation in Europe. To allow decisions on ever more important topics to be made on the basis of qualified majority voting would be in conflict with basic democratic standards. Countries with a tradition of holding referendums before surrendering sovereignty may in future be in danger of finding themselves in a situation in which a proposal that is rejected nationally is adopted at EU level. Those countries which are not so keen on integration are left with a poor alternative, namely that of copying the legislation without having any real say in it. What they cannot do, however, is avoid the pioneer countries’ legislation.
The Group for a Europe of Democracies and Diversities wants a freer and more flexible Europe in which there is no pressure to be involved in everything. We want to see a Europe of democracies and diversity. We are therefore voting against the report."@en1
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