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"Mr President, the Commission’s communication to the Laeken European Council, with regard to the organisation of the debate prior to the IGC, seems to us to be mistaken in both its objective and method.
With regard to the objective, it states that we must, and I quote, ‘draw up credible guidelines in order that an enlarged Europe can achieve political, economic and social integration’. And yet, if the different peoples of Europe really do want common cooperation and work at a European level, none of them has, to my knowledge, ever asked for this extreme type of integration, that is to say political, economic and social unification, by means of a democratic consultation. The objective today is not to strengthen this ‘integration-unification’, headed by supranational institutions, which we do not want, but to better organise and make more effective the nations’ control over Brussels. Under these conditions, the Community method, useful on occasions, should not become the rule, for it is too supranational, too rigid, and removes the Union from the reality of its citizens. It should be provided with procedures which are more flexible, founded on respect for national democracies.
This is why the forthcoming Convention should mainly rely upon national parliaments, which should work within networks. And to start with, it is these national parliaments which should have the task of organising the debate with their citizens and to put forward proposals without having to pass through an artificial forum of associations, which are European in name but not at all representative."@en1
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