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"Mr President, the people of France and the Netherlands are sticking to their guns. According to a British poll, 74% of French people and 75% of Dutch people do not believe that a single part of the European Constitution should be implemented, unless a decision is made to hold another referendum. This is a bitter show of dissent for Mr Sarkozy who, disregarding the vote cast by the French population, wants to make the congress vote again just on parts I and II of the Constitution. It is also a show of dissent for those who wanted to make the people of France and the Netherlands vote again on the Constitution, a Constitution accompanied by a social protocol designed to reassure the French and by a protocol on subsidiarity designed to reassure the Dutch.
It never rains but it pours for the Euro-federalists: according to the same poll, 63% of French people and 68% of Dutch people want to take back a number of powers from the European Union or to leave it altogether. This is an act of revenge by the European nations on the ideological and irresponsible Eurocrats in Brussels. It is also the return of the right of the peoples and nations to follow their own destiny and to defend their sovereignty and their identity.
Let us return to the Europe of realities and the Europe of nations, which the British and the Danes were able to retain so successfully. They rejected the Schengen Agreement and a Europe overrun by massive influxes of immigrants granted residence and work permits on the initiative of Mr Zapatero and Mr Berlusconi. They rejected the euro and its budgetary austerity pact, which curbs growth. They rejected the European Super-State, which is aimed at destroying the nations of Europe.
The fact that a decision will be made during the forthcoming European Council in Brussels to extend the period of reflection by one year reveals – – if there were any need to reveal it – – the divide that exists between the nations of Europe and the self-proclaimed elites, who have not learnt a single thing and who act as though nothing had happened. They did not grasp the fact that Europeans were feeling deceived by this passive, ultraliberal Europe, which is all about fine words and slogans and which has the weakest growth rate in the world and the highest unemployment rate. They did not grasp the fact that the nations of Europe did not want Turkey in Europe and that the Turkish advance imposed by Brussels was creating an irreparable split."@en1
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