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"Mr President, legal certainty means that the exercise of power and the administration of justice can be anticipated on the basis of legal rules. It is clear from its legislative and work programme for 2007 that the Commission expects the draft Constitution to be implemented. This is despite the fact that large majorities in the Netherlands and in France have rejected the draft. The struggle between the political establishment and the peoples of Europe continues apace, then.
The European project is on a dangerous road. The European Court of Justice will lose its legitimacy as a result of the arrogant attitude it displays towards the popularly elected governments of the Member States. The Court of Justice is, in reality, a self-appointed power in Europe. It chose to declare itself the guardian of the principle of the separation of powers even before the Amsterdam Summit of 1998. It did this without any democratic or political basis whatsoever. The Court of Justice has also made clear to the national courts that they cannot regard themselves as independent, but rather that they represent the extended arm of the Court of Justice, through which it performs its judicial activism.
I would therefore call on the Members of this House to think things over before it is too late. The EU does not need more concentration of power with no democratic basis. The EU needs competition, not just between companies on the market in order to create better products, but between countries in order to come up with sound political solutions to the problems of the day."@en1
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