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dcterms:Date	"2001-07-04"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20010704.1.3-026"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-07-04-Speech-3-0272
lpv:speaker	lp:Frank Vanhecke2
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lpv:translated text	"( Madam President, Mr President-in-Office of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, I have heard the Presidency being very quick to talk of a Laeken Declaration, but feel obliged to remind them that the Treaty of Nice no longer exists, since it was rejected by an impeccably democratic referendum in Ireland. The way in which this established fact is being ignored by European officialdom is very characteristic of the undemocratic, dangerously totalitarian turn that the European Union is taking. For that matter, in other European Member States, even holding referenda is considered too risky. No referendum on European expansion plans, no referendum on the introduction of the euro and no referendum on Europe’s ever-tightening grip on strictly national powers over, for example, culture or social security. Gentlemen with the word democracy forever on their lips refuse to let the people decide for themselves. Last week in the leading Flemish weekly Frans Crols put it as follows: ‘On 1 July, Belgium will become head of the Brussels mafia. An amalgam of unelected apparatchiks in Brussels who are trying to build an superpower in consultation with European politicians who outdo each other in vagueness’. In that sense, it is very symbolic that the Belgian Presidency should be represented in Parliament by Prime Minister Verhofstadt and by Foreign Minister Michel. Mr Michel is the man who led the hate campaigns against Austria and against Italy, since the people of those countries paid no attention in democratic elections to the paternalistic voting advice of a self-satisfied Belgian diplomatic machine. Mr Verhofstadt is an undisputed champion, not only in cycling, but also in lying and breaking his word. He is the man who came to power in Belgium, and remains in power, by denying his own civil manifestos and election promises and through a policy of systematic horsetrading and lying to the detriment of his own people. Mr Verhofstadt is the man who cannot defeat the opposition Flemish Block party at the polls and who therefore is trying, at the taxpayers’ expense, to have my party banned by the courts with methods that would not have been out of place behind the Iron Curtain or in Nazi Germany. What the French lawyer Isorni once said about Michel Debré applies equally to Mr Verhofstadt: he crawls flat on his belly, weighed down by the weight of his denials."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"NL)"1 "Qu’il marche à plat ventre sous le poids lourd de ses reniements"1 "Trends"1 "Vanhecke (TDI )."1 "ersatz"1

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