Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-05-17-Speech-3-340"
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"Mr President, buying energy from another country is one thing. The political ramifications in this case are quite another, and here it is a written document that matters. The EU employs the
as one of the founding principles to which all its Member States have solemnly signed. How can this be extended to countries which are not even candidates yet?
The EU suggests going beyond the
and overriding due process in the event of special circumstances. What are these circumstances? How short are your memories? We heard this excuse before. It led to a conflagration from which we are suffering still and to evils which we still do not comprehend.
You may know that I do not wish my country to be part of the EU, but currently it is and I am a democrat. This House of properly-elected deputies should be consulted and should be the final arbiter, deleting the provision requiring the Council to consult Parliament before adoption of the Commission’s position excludes this House from any meaningful debate.
This is all about enlargement by the back door. Page 6 of the recommendation draws a parallel with the Coal and Steel Community and how it started the EEC as it then was. That being the case, why not say so? Why keep it secret? Excluding Parliament, special circumstances decided by an unelected body, secretive motives: all are the beginnings of totalitarianism. No, please do not scoff, because that kind of attitude is exactly how all the demagogues and dictators down the ages got away with it."@en1
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