Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-06-08-Speech-3-040"
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"Mr President, the Constitution is dead in France and buried in the Netherlands, yet the Council’s otherwise decent President-in-Office is behaving like a body snatcher in wanting to continue with the process of ratifying the rejected document. Start afresh. Allow a working party with equal numbers of supporters and opponents to get together and prepare a discussion paper with draft ground rules capable of uniting Europe instead of dividing us.
This Parliament’s Referendum Group would be happy to be involved. We have seven current demands concerning openness, the election of Commissioners, majority voting with the right of veto, the principle of proximity, the right of control by the national parliaments, minimum flexible conditions, and enhanced cooperation instead of compulsion. Read our proposal. We have tested the first two demands by means of an opinion poll in Denmark. They were supported by 80% of the electorate and opposed by only 12%. It is that level of support that we need to have for common ground rules. Use your ears, listen to the electorate and do come to our press conference at 4 p.m."@en1
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