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"Ladies and gentlemen, the draft Constitutional Treaty was comprehensively rejected in France and the Netherlands, in what amounted to a clear vote of no confidence in national and European political elites. To our astonishment, however, there are those who are attempting to resurrect this document. It has been suggested that the ratification process should be continued and the draft Treaty renegotiated, and the search is even on for legal means of negating the outcome of the referenda. Such measures should be regarded as both anti-democratic and arrogant, and come dangerously close to totalitarianism. The political elites should realise that the majority of Europe’s nations are opposed to the establishment of a bureaucratic, Brussels-run superstate monopolising social, economic and monetary policy. Instead, they wish to participate democratically in decision-making processes and in European integration based on free cooperation between free countries. Heads of State or Government who disregard the sovereign will of their nations may well find that the latter regard them as dictators, and deal with them accordingly."@en1

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