Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-05-22-Speech-2-215"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-05-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Debate on the future of Europe with the participation of the Prime Minister of Italy, Member of the European Council (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070522.23.2-215"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-05-22-Speech-2-2162
lpv:speaker	lp:Paul Marie Coûteaux2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DEVE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Mouvement pour la France - Rassemblement pour l’Indépendance et la Souveraineté de la France (2005-10-05--2009-07-13)3 substitute; SEDE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, almost two years ago to the day, the French ‘no’ vote sentenced the European Constitution to death. This was then confirmed by the Netherlands, and by the United Kingdom, and then by the Czech Republic and Poland. There was also the scant enthusiasm of the only two countries to have said ‘yes’ by referendum, Luxembourg and Spain. In Spain, just 32% of the registered voters supported the text. In short, the constitutional process broke down and then came to a standstill, and we owe that breakdown mainly to France. From that point on, everything became clear to us, the French sovereigntists, on behalf of whom I am speaking in this House: it was France that needed to be circumvented, it was the French who needed to be tricked! And that was done by means of an immense ruse. When it came to the presidential elections, two candidates were pre-selected at the outset, so that, when one of them was elected and newly legitimised, they would say yes where the French wanted to say no. That explains Mr Sarkozy’s outrageous gesture of rushing to see Mrs Merkel on the very day of his inauguration. There must be no doubt about the illegitimacy of this ‘yes’ dragged out of France by means of this presidential manoeuvring. I am well aware that everyone in the silent, bustling little aquarium of the Brussels oligarchies will get together in order to concoct a new text, and that it will certainly not be called a constitution, but an institutional reform, which amounts to the same thing. The ‘no’ supporters are not dead, however. Mr Barroso should be under no illusions, and nor should you, Mr Prodi: sooner or later, France will speak out again, because France, despite all opposition, is attached to its freedoms. And those freedoms national freedoms will triumph in the end, despite all your feeble machinations."@en1

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