Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-09-03-Speech-2-246"
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"Commissioner, I am very interested in what you said. You said, first of all, that you should not get involved in telling people what you will do if the Irish people vote against and that, if there was an alternative, the Irish people would want to know what that alternative was. So you are saying you would keep the Irish people in the dark and bully them into voting 'yes'. It is interesting to hear the Commission say that they should not get involved. We have already had Commissioners such as Patten, Byrne and others telling the Irish people they must vote 'yes'. Mr Prodi said that the Treaty of Nice is not legally necessary for enlargement. Giscard d'Estaing said the same thing and that if the Irish people vote 'no' other solutions will be found. But really the strategy here is to pretend that there is no alternative and to try to force the Irish people into saying 'yes' to something they have already said 'no' to.
As you said yourself, you do not want to propose alternatives because you do not want the Irish people to ask what those alternatives are. How democratic is that?"@en1
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