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"The European Parliament’s resolution on the constitutional process and the preparations for the European Council of 25 to 26 March 2004 practises the usual blackmail that we have seen in the case of each treaty, whereby it is proclaimed that an absence of agreement would have harmful repercussions for both integration and enlargement and would entail ‘a devastating loss of solidarity and legitimacy’.
We think, on the contrary, that anything is preferable to a bad agreement that would tie our hands for a long time to come. Do we have to draw attention to our warnings about the Treaty of Amsterdam which, in particular, transferred basic competences to the Community on issues of immigration and increased the powers of the Commission? Do we have to draw attention to our warnings about the Treaty of Nice, which was to get rid of France’s second Commissioner and reduce our representation in the European Parliament from 87 MEPs to 78 (and soon 72), while Germany retains 99 MEPs?
None of these warnings has ever been taken into account by our governments. Nor have many others. Now, everyone feels desperately locked into processes that are weakening France.
The current draft European Constitution is untimely, as I again explained yesterday in my statement attached to the debate on enlargement. If we were to adopt it, we should quickly regret having done so."@en1
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