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"Mr President, I abstained from the vote, as I believe that the process of ratifying the Constitutional Treaty, which I sincerely hope will succeed, is clearly a sovereign event in the Member States. It is, indeed, the most sovereign event for the Member States, given that on occasions such as these, decisions are taken that affect their own sovereignty.
Parliament must therefore resist the temptation to show any intention to interfere in the way the Member States – given that they are, and must be, democracies – implement this process. Accordingly, I do not believe that we should suggest that the Council set out coordinated approaches for scheduling national ratification processes or that it encourage Parliament to take control and to mount campaigns on the referendums that are to take place. It should certainly not sound warnings of any kind, as suggested in one of the proposed amendments.
As regards the issue of the communication strategy, I feel that the Constitution should be presented to EU citizens in the clearest and most easily comprehensible way possible, as mentioned in Recital C of the adopted resolution. The EU will therefore fund initiatives that genuinely provide objective, factual, fair and independent information. The people, the national parliaments and the people’s representatives in those parliaments will then decide via the ballot box. Thank you very much, Mr President, for the attention of the Members of this House."@en1
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