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"en.20031218.4.4-113"2
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"Could anyone have seriously envisaged that the European Council would accept without any amendments – as demanded by Parliament’s edicts – the ‘European Constitution’ prepared by the Convention? Surely not.
Blinded by their utopian dreams from a bygone era, the federalists fail completely to look at their own record. Worthy successors to the wretched Lysenko, they even look around for potential scapegoats to take the blame for their failure to break the IGC deadlock. As shown by the first reprisals against the beneficiaries of the budget, the enraged members of the Convention now want heads to roll!
Neither the Italian Presidency, nor the attitude of certain countries – who bravely defended their interests – can be blamed for this fiasco; it was simply the result of this Convention and its outlandish constitution!
This project was doomed from the start because it is totally divorced from the political reality of Europe, which remains fundamentally defined by the existence of people and nations. By rejecting the redistribution of power based on the federal model, Spain and Poland have done Europe a great favour. These two countries have finally said aloud what several others have privately thought; that is, Jean Monnet’s old Europe inherited from the Yalta partition is now obsolete."@en1
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