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"en.20020611.8.2-146"2
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"Madam President, this report is a technical stage in the Eurocrats’ protracted efforts to develop a political, parliamentary division of the European Union. These efforts were based on the provisions of the Treaty of Maastricht through which an attempt was made, albeit unsuccessfully in Denmark, to make the electorate and the world around us believe that developing European political parties was an important integration factor. Through these manoeuvres, aimed at developing a political and parliamentary division, the intention is to create a European political identity. This political architecture is back to front. It is like a builder starting with the top floor and building downwards, rather than beginning at ground level. These efforts are doomed to fail. They are succeeded by a long list of initiatives regarding European political parties, but politics is not founded on the basis of preconceived resolutions concerning a European construction whose top floor presumably belongs in the stratosphere. The most recent historical precedent for this form of back-to-front political architecture is the Tower of Babel which, as is well known, did not work out very well, with the construction’s never being finished."@en1
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