Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-06-18-Speech-3-025"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-06-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The European Convention2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030618.4.3-025"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-06-18-Speech-3-0262
lpv:speaker	lp:Jens-Peter Bonde2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; JuniBevægelsen (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; EDD (2001-01-30--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Presidents (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, constitutions belong to the people. They limit politicians’ power between elections, referendums and constitutional changes. A constitution is the people’s protection against the politicians. The draft EU constitution has instead become the politicians’ protection against the people. Thirteen out of 25 prime ministers, elected on a quite different basis, are at the centre of power. Six or seven of the 13 will be people who can no longer be elected in their own countries and who can share the power among themselves after each election to the European Parliament. They must have an eye to the election result, but they themselves decide if they have had enough of an eye to it. In that way, Mr Blair can become President, Mr Fischer Foreign Minister and Mr Aznar President or Vice-President of the Commission. It is five years’ consolation for all those who are finished in their own countries. EU leaders elect each other and are not accountable to the electorate. One of them must have a majority in the European Parliament, but Parliament cannot elect a second. If the Commission is elected, it can be overturned by a 2/3 majority, but Parliament still cannot elect a second one. It is an historic paradox that you have to be a democracy in order to enter the EU, but that the EU is not itself a democracy. If the European Convention were to apply for EU membership on the basis of the present draft constitution, we should have to say that there were very fine objectives and values in Articles 2 and 3, but why have you forgotten democracy? Why does the electorate not have the final say? Why must the constitution not be approved by referendum in all the countries?"@en1
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