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One only has to read point 6 to justify rejecting the Resolution. According to Point 6, the Resolution ‘reaffirms its commitment to achieving a settlement of the ongoing constitutional process of the European Union that is based on the content of the Constitutional Treaty, possibly under a different presentation …’
These few words lay bare the true intention of the current (cosy) negotiations taking place in the Council – in other words, between the governments run by the Portuguese Socialists, the German Christian Democrat/Social Democrat coalition, and so on – which are purely and simply an attempt to (re)impose the thrust of the Treaty rejected by France and the Netherlands. This is indicative of deep disdain for the democratic sovereign will expressed by the people of these two countries in national referendums.
During the debate, did anyone actually ask whether they ‘take people for fools’? Yet it is precisely because they do not ‘take people for fools’ that the political forces of the right and the social democrats, in cahoots with one another, negotiate ‘behind closed doors’ and keep their cards close to their chests so as to preclude the risk of failure.
The German Presidency moves full steam ahead, claiming it has a ‘mandate’ to ‘preserve’ the content and ‘substance’ of the so-called ‘European Constitution’ in the ‘new’ draft Treaty to be presented by December 2007 (!) and ratified by 2009.
In a word, unacceptable."@en1
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