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"Madam President, the Presidency and my two esteemed fellow Members, Mr Barón Crespo and Mr Brok, would have us ignore the French and Dutch voters. They voted incorrectly, so they must not vote again. The Presidency, the rapporteurs and the large majority of Parliament want the whole of the rejected Constitution brought into effect, only under a new name and without a referendum. Sarkozy’s mini-treaty does not mean fewer obligations. ‘Mini’ refers to the form of decision-making, with minimal influence for the voters and no more referendums. The German Chancellor has led the way. She requires all the countries to accept the content of a Constitution that even her own country has not ratified. In both Slovakia and Germany, constitutional litigation awaits.
The former President of the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, former German President and, in addition, Chairman of our Fundamental Rights Convention, Roman Herzog, has indicated that 84% of German laws now come from Brussels and that it is now already doubtful whether Germany can be called a parliamentary democracy. With 59 new areas in which the national parliaments have no right of veto, the EU countries will no longer be parliamentary democracies. It is, then, no longer questionable, but indisputable, that legislation devised by officials and lobbyists has supplanted the form of government we used to call parliamentary democracy. There is one comfort. There are still only 16 of 27 countries, representing 37% of the EU countries’ voters, that have ratified the Constitution within the unanimously adopted two-year deadline. On an entirely formal basis, the Constitution is therefore dead. Let us set up a new, directly elected Convention to prepare a text that can be adopted on the grounds that it will provide living national democracies with transparency, proximity to the people and greater democracy in those areas in which we decide to legislate in common. Let us also hold referendums throughout the EU and so give voters the last word."@en1
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