Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-01-11-Speech-2-053"
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"Mr President, it is pretty clear that what we are involved in here is a one-sided exercise in selling this Constitution to the peoples of Europe. Listening to some of the talk, you would think the Second Coming of the Lord was being debated. Starting this week, you will be spending large amounts of taxpayers' money telling people what they should think and how they should vote. I suggest that first you ought to put your House in order.
Some weeks ago I revealed to this Parliament Commissioner Barrot's past and the affair was whitewashed. Now it has emerged that during his hearing, Siim Kallas, who is in charge of the anti-fraud drive, gave deliberately misleading information and inaccurate dates, and used a misinterpretation as a means of shying away from a vital question.
Yesterday afternoon, President Borrell denied me the chance to make a one-minute speech to mention this to Parliament. You will not win your constitutional battle by burying the truth and by failing to have a proper debate. The whole process will fall yet further into disrepute, although, given the fact that I, along with many colleagues here, will be campaigning for a 'no' vote, perhaps I should be grateful for the manner in which you conduct yourselves."@en1
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