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"Mr President, we must be very grateful to Mr Schüssel for his honesty in saying that the substance of the Constitutional Treaty must remain untouched. The message is loud and clear. The political elite knows best; full steam ahead with the Constitution; and do not listen to the people.
Not only that, but Mr Barroso has told us that the next stage, next March, will be a political declaration, the Berlin Declaration. In time he might see that as a public relations miscalculation. Mr Schüssel finished by referring to Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, the anthem of the European Union. I think I can remember some of the words:
I have always thought it unfair that Beethoven should be associated with the European Union given that in his own day he was a fervent opponent of European political integration under Napoleon.
But the musical theme reminds me of another little tune. It did not have as great a composer as Beethoven; it did not have as great a poet as Schiller to write the words, but its words sum up the attitude of Britain towards the European Union:
‘Who do you think you are kidding Mr Schüssel, if you think old England’s done? We are the boys who will make you think again, we are the boys who will stop your little game. Who do you think you are kidding Mr Schüssel?’"@en1
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