Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-07-11-Speech-3-021"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-07-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Presentation of the programme of the Portuguese presidency (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070711.4.3-021"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-07-11-Speech-3-0222
lpv:speaker	lp:Patrick Louis2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ITRE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Mouvement pour la France (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ECON (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, a Polish newspaper recently published the following story: What was the first European referendum? Answer: when God, having created Eve, said to Adam: ‘choose your wife’. The image is apt. Today, far away from the Garden of Eden, the Portuguese Presidency has taken over from the German Presidency. The latter will have been marked by its trickery, with an attempt to impose on the people of France and of the Netherlands a barely disguised and pruned text that they rejected by referendum. This mini-treaty is nothing but the Constitution in disguise. Some years ago, Mr Padoa-Schioppa, the father of the euro, wrote a piece in a French journal, the gist of which was that European integration stems more from enlightened despotism than from democracy. We have a vivid illustration of this today with this gross manipulation. How can one say that the new text corresponds to the desire expressed by the people of France and of the Netherlands during the referendums if it is not submitted to another such test by referendum? If I may, Mr President, I shall express a wish in this House at the dawn of the Portuguese Presidency: if we do not want the people of Europe to turn their backs once and for all on the political class, then the Portuguese Presidency must make a total break with its outdated methods and undertake immediately the one genuine European reform that the people expect: less technocracy, more democracy."@en1

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