Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-10-09-Speech-3-031"
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"Mr President, in my former speech, I said how very grateful I was to the Commission. I should also like to say a big thank-you to this Parliament and to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy which quickly reached a decision, with very broad agreement, to support this enlargement project. Parliament showed the way and Parliament can now see the result. Credit where credit is due. I have heard many debates in this house, but never have I seen such huge consensus on a project as many-faceted as that to which we are here giving further impetus.
There was of course one dissenting voice and, since I am the only Dane speaking today, I should like to provide a little consumer information to Irish voters. In Denmark, no one is surprised at the fact that Mr Bonde is now conducting a campaign against the new treaty. He has conducted campaigns against all the treaties. He adopted an oppositional stance during the Cold War when he was against everything that strengthened the Western democracies against the Communist dictatorships. He was opposed to Danish membership of the EC. He was in the opposition camp when we voted for the first time on the Maastricht Treaty, as he also was when we voted on it for the second time. He conducted a campaign against the Treaty of Amsterdam, and now he is conducting one against the Treaty of Nice.
That is fair enough as far as it goes, but it is not fair enough if the Irish electorate is unaware that, in supporting Mr Bonde, they are supporting someone who is against the whole set-up and who has been opposed to every single aspect of European cooperation. I just thought there was no harm in saying that. My apologies."@en1
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