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". The outcome of the Copenhagen Summit has left a bitter taste in everyone’s mouth. The Europe that the Heads of State are building fluctuates between powerlessness and contempt. Powerlessness first, when we see that the European Union is incapable of achieving a fair and lasting peace in the Middle East or even of demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya or of French troops from Côte d'Ivoire. It is also powerless because the EU has shown itself to be incapable of preventing the predictable shipwreck of the oil tanker which was 25 years old and flying a flag of convenience off the coast of Galicia. We then see contempt when the Eurocrats meeting in the Convention take decisions concerning 450 million citizens on basic constitutional texts without involving or consulting these citizens. Contempt has been shown towards the ten new countries which will have to undergo further waves of liberalisation and privatisation. Contempt for the populations of Turkey who, according to Giscard d'Estaing, do not share ‘the Christian values of European civilisation’. The emphatic speeches of our leaders on the historic nature of this summit did not drown out those who, in their thousands, brought the values of another Europe onto the streets of Copenhagen – the values of democracy, peace and social justice. With them, here as I did there, I have rejected the outcome of this summit."@en1

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