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The real scope of the ongoing machinations surrounding the so-called ‘new’ Treaty is mirrored in the resolution adopted by the majority in Parliament today.
Two aspects should be emphasised:
It confirms that the contemptible (and false) ‘period of reflection’ has merely been used to reach the conclusion that the content of the rejected Treaty must be preserved. That confirmation is now enshrined in the mandate for the ‘new’ reform of the treaties;
The incredible display of cynicism and hypocrisy by the majority in Parliament, which, it should be emphasised, includes the political forces that dominate the various governments of the EU countries, and which, having rejected the proposals for amendment calling referendums to be held on the so-called ‘new’ Treaty, ‘calls on the IGC and the Commission to put forward specific proposals to involve European citizens once again (…) in a dialogue in the continuation of the constitutional process’.
It is vital to condemn an operation aimed at imposing the essential thrust of a Treaty that has already been rejected, by dressing it up in order to try to prevent binding national referendums from being held. That is why we voted to reject the mandate to the IGC and this decision by Parliament."@en1
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