Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-01-11-Speech-2-056"
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"Mr President, Commissioner, I should first like to congratulate the two rapporteurs, Mr Corbett and Mr Méndez de Vigo, on their remarkable report. I should also, however, like to thank Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, without whom, I am sure, we would not be here today debating this historic stage in Europe’s development. We are in a position to gauge how far we have come.
The greatest danger for Europe would be to fall back into intergovernmental methods. Indeed, we must deplore the fact that European governments have not followed all the proposals made by the Convention, the consequence of which is that we shall gradually have to adapt the Constitution as we go along. In fact, what we need is more Europe in a globalised world confronted with terrorism, migratory flows, climate change and major economic disruption. We need more Europe, more Union – a Union based on our universal values – and more democracy. The Constitution will bring all of this, strengthening Parliament’s role and involving national parliaments at the same time.
Those rejecting this Constitution speak of Brussels bureaucracy, of a loss of national sovereignty and of a European superstate. For want of arguments, they trot out the same backward-looking slogans, which are today devoid of meaning because they bear no relation to reality. This is typical of their inability to look to the future. How else can we explain that all 25 of our governments agreed to adopt the Constitution? They certainly did not intend to commit
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Because we must work collectively together in the service of the European citizen and for future generations, we say ‘yes’ to the Constitution for Europe. Europeans must choose between insularity and paralysis, on the one hand, and openness and modernity, on the other. The choice is simple – if we want a free and responsible Europe, we must ratify the Constitution for Europe."@en1
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