Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-05-22-Speech-2-385"
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"Mr Brok preaches the importance of the EU having a foreign minister and its own ambassadors around the world. He observes that only 18 countries have so far ratified the Constitutional Treaty and that ‘full ratification … needs to be pursued’. Consider that wording carefully: ‘full ratification … needs to be pursued’. This means, then, that the will of the people in two of the EU’s founding Member States is not being accepted. That is the way things happen here in Strasbourg and Brussels. As always, the same old mantra to the effect that Europe must be able to speak with one voice is heard again. That means that 27 voices have to be silenced. What, then, will the remaining voice say? Allow me to give an example. The invasion of Iraq was supported by a coalition of the willing involving the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands, Denmark and other countries. An EU with one voice would probably have approved the invasion, and German soldiers would have been forced to go to war, against the express will of the German Parliament. Think about it, and think again. Speaking with one voice necessarily implies one people with a single identity, but we Europeans have different identities."@en1
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