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Today, the advocates of the Constitution are celebrating. The European Parliament cannot amend the document’s wording, any more than can national parliaments or the voters who will take part in the national referendums. We can only approve or reject it, and celebrate or mourn that choice accordingly.
That makes it impossible to scrap the requirement for re-armament and for solidarity with NATO. It is equally impossible to make the free unhindered competition that the text glorifies subordinate to the environment, the provision of public services or the protection of labour. It is no longer possible to actually reward the collection of a million signatures of citizens, prescribed in Article 46, with a referendum. New social basic rights are lacking. The EU’s traditional authoritarian administrative model, boasting a strong role for the Council and the presidency, without any adequate means of correcting it by way of parliamentary democracy, is not up for discussion either. I do not want this Constitution. I do not want to be part of today’s festivities. In the Netherlands in the next couple of months, I shall be involved in the campaign of my party, the Socialist Party, to persuade a majority of voters to reject this flawed text."@en1
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