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After years of exasperating stagnation, the Union has, for some months, been progressing at an increasingly frenetic rate with which the citizens cannot keep up. Indeed, it is difficult for them to follow all the stages which have characterised the development of the Union recently: the signing of the Treaty of Nice against the backdrop of the general discontent and the urban guerrilla warfare sparked off by the anti-globalisation movements, the 'Convention' which drew up the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the 'fundamentalists' who want to incorporate it into a European Constitution, the proposals currently being discussed to use the 'convention' method again for the institutional reforms and so on and so forth
These are all steps which are difficult for the citizens to follow. They cannot understand why progress is speeding up in some matters while it is infuriatingly slow in the issues that affect them directly: indeed, the absence of a European economic project, continuing unemployment, the likely weakness of the euro and lack of food safety are only some of the many issues which concern and perplex the citizens.
We would like to see the current elements of the Community acquis implemented first, and then a broader debate held with the citizens of the Union in order to clear up doubts and allay fears before we move on to new institutional phases.
This is why we have abstained in the vote."@en1
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