Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-01-17-Speech-3-033"
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"Mr President, Chancellor Merkel, thank you for the warm welcome you gave to the group chairmen in Berlin. It was a constructive beginning to the German Presidency. Today, moreover, you talked in splendid terms about diversity, freedom and respect for national and regional parliaments. You also want to ensure that, in future, 84% of German laws will no longer be enacted in Brussels, a state of affairs deplored by the former President of Germany, Roman Herzog, a few days ago. The process is now under way of negotiating in smoke-filled rooms and going through the rejected Constitution in order to see which of its clauses can be sneaked through without having to have referendums. If this exercise is continued with, the result will be a serious crisis of confidence between citizens and their elected representatives. It makes much more sense to map out the future in conjunction with our citizens, rather than in opposition to them. Why not say right now that the text on which you agree will be put to referendums in all the countries in which that is constitutionally possible, and preferably on the same day. In that way, we should know people’s position on the matter, and the final clauses might quickly be negotiated and put in place. We should also have ground rules that people actively support, instead of having a situation in which people react with further disgust to all elected representatives.
Madam Federal Chancellor, Mr President, I, who come from Northern Schleswig, thank you most warmly."@en1
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