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". – I am delighted that Parliament has overwhelmingly approved paragraph 49 regretting the passing by the US Senate of a bill which would allow for the use of force by the US to prevent its citizens from being tried by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The overwhelming support for that paragraph (385 Members in favour) indicates that D66 was right to raise this issue in Parliament because the success of the ICC is a European issue.
Despite these and other important positions I subscribe to, I hesitated to vote in favour because of the following passage: "6. Stresses that the ratification of the Nice Treaty by all Member States will facilitate a successful enlargement process".
It is factually incorrect to suggest that ratification of the Treaty of Nice facilitates the enlargement process. During the Nice summit, our governments’ leaders chose to make Europe slightly less democratic and less efficient. Moreover, by going further down the road of intergovernmentalism (and consequently less transparency) the Treaty of Nice leads Europe in the opposite direction to where we need to go."@en1
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