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We have rejected this report as we rejected the draft Constitutional Treaty drawn up by the Convention and presented by Mr Giscard d’Estaing. This draft has no legitimacy because it is not the outcome of the will of Europe’s citizens and the Convention was nothing but a mockery of democratic debate. Neither those who drafted it nor the decision-makers were mandated by the people or by universal suffrage. The views of ‘civil society’ were certainly given a hearing but there was never any question of involving the citizens in the drafting process. The most important aspect, however, is that this Treaty represents the constitutionalisation of a liberal, pro-Nato, militarist and antisocial Europe, which is opposed to secularism, social rights, public services and the interests of the workers. We now refuse to give an Intergovernmental Conference the right to decide for us all.
The stakes, however, are high. This European constitution for 450 million citizens will take precedence over national constitutions. The container and the contents concern us all. What is really needed is a different type of process, in other words, holding binding referendums on the same day throughout the Union in order to ensure that Europe has a different, more progressive draft Constitution. The best way of opposing this free-market Europe is by mobilising the citizens, and this will happen in particular at the European Social Forum, which will take place at Saint-Denis in November of this year."@en1
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