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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is one word missing from this Constitution, and that word is ‘sovereignty’. It has been replaced by the word ‘identity’, which is not at all the same thing. In the four corners of the earth, as we well know, there are peoples who have strong identities and who rightly claim sovereignty, such as the Palestinians, the Iraqis and many others.
In Europe, there will now be peoples who, at a time when they are at risk of losing their identities with Turkey set to join the EU, will lose their sovereignty when the Constitution comes into force. One word has disappeared, the word ‘sovereignty’, and another has appeared, the word ‘law’, European law, a word that is the very symbol of national democracies. There is therefore going to be a European law, henceforth on a higher legal level than national laws, even constitutional laws. Our Constitution, therefore, for each of our peoples, will become the equivalent of the internal regulations of a region of Europe. This European, supranational law will from now on be adopted by majority and not unanimously. There is therefore no longer any opportunity for a particular people to voice its opposition, even if this is a matter of defending its vital interests.
Thirdly, this supranational European law will be drawn up by a Brussels bureaucracy that has had the attributes of a State conferred on it. That bureaucracy is becoming a full-scale international player, with the right to conclude international agreements, with a minister for foreign affairs; those words do not lie. It will enjoy the transfer to its remit of the powers of a superstate – the capacity to draw up laws, to define public services and to address matters relating to immigration and borders.
At the same time – and this will be my last point – national democracies will be trampled underfoot. National parliaments are having their capacity to make laws removed from them. To compensate for this, they have been given the right to deliver opinions."@en1
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