Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-02-21-Speech-1-028"
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"en.20050221.12.1-028"2
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I have risen to speak because I am extremely concerned about the state of democracy in the European Union. We are being told that it can be considered a great success if a small proportion, or just over one quarter, of the citizens entitled to do so vote ‘yes’ in a referendum, the most important public expression of collective will. It is also coming to light that propaganda tricks were used during the campaign, for example that Spanish citizens were told that a vote against the European Constitution would be a vote against Europe, which is a blatant lie. We are particularly concerned about public money being spent on the ‘yes’ campaign, and about the plans to spend even more on it. This amounts to cheating Europe’s citizens, and we demand equality before the law."@en1
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