Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-01-19-Speech-4-159"
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"Mr President, the Duff/Voggenhuber report amounts to the European Parliament itself wiping the floor with democracy and is an expression of its belief that the referendums in the Netherlands and France are an irrelevance and that the Constitution must enter into force in 2009 by whatever means and no matter what else happens.
That is actually even worse than the European Commission’s simply acting as if it is no concern of theirs. That is actually just as bad. We in this House are in very bad company when the EU is under the presidency of Austria, whose Chancellor, Mr Schüssel, is actually so shameless as to call for new referendums in France and the Netherlands, the idea being that the people must carry on voting until they vote the way the Eurocrats want them to. That itself is perhaps not that bad, given that there are also countries in which the people are not getting a vote at all – my own, for example, where there be no vote on such things as the European constitution and the monstrous thing has to be whipped through the parliaments without democratic consultation.
In any case, all the European institutions are manifestly united in their contempt for national democracies and for the democratic will of the public. This is not the way to do something about the great repugnance that our people have for Europe."@en1
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