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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	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030618.4.3-030"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-06-18-Speech-3-0312
lpv:speaker	lp:Esko Seppänen2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 unknown; Vasemmistoliitto (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 substitute; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it is being proposed that the European Union should have a constitution. The Convention has produced one: it approved the draft version based on a federalist consensus in a way reminiscent of a Politburo-style dictatorship. Once again it is a matter of a on the part of the big countries. Qualified majority decisions take away small countries’ right of veto, which, however, the three big countries still have when acting in concert. The Member States are to lose their permanent voting Commissioner, although the right of initiative with regard to all EU legislation will remain a Commission monopoly. The fact that there is to be a president and that foreign policy will not be in the hands of the Commission will make the EU a more decentralised federation than the federalist European Parliament’s delegation would have liked. With the constitution the EU will be militarised and NATO has been written into it. When the other pillars were toppled a new NATO pillar was erected. The non-aligned countries must not sign the declaration regarding collective security guarantees to be annexed to the constitution. The collective defence of the EU in the constitution could also mean collective unlawful invasion."@en1

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