Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-01-18-Speech-3-043"
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"en.20060118.2.3-043"2
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"Mr President-in-Office of the Council, what I expect from your Presidency is progress over negotiations on the European Constitution. I expect you finally to pluck up the courage to tell our citizens, loud and clear, that the text being foisted upon them by the politicians is impenetrable, iniquitous and, more importantly, does not in any way solve the crisis currently facing the European Union. There is in fact a precedent for European integration, an important foundation on which Austria can base this announcement to our citizens. Less than a hundred years ago, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was a unique confederation with common ministries for foreign affairs, war and finance, as well as a High Court of Auditors. It was made up of 21 European countries, in which the citizens spoke a number of languages, and it lasted for 51 years. What was its undoing? Nobody had the courage to solve the kind of problems that such co-existence naturally brings. Politicians believed that problems would simply disappear of their own accord over time; and we know what came of that. I therefore hope, Mr President, that Austria will not take the same route as its predecessors, but will instead advocate that the European Constitution be recast in such a way that it is workable, concise, comprehensible and just."@en1
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