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Mr President, members of the Council and of the Commission, unfortunately and prophetically, as far back in 1942, the Ventotene Manifesto denounced your Europe of the nations as the main danger opposing the United States of Europe, or the European motherland. On 14 February 1984 the European Parliament overcame this lethal policy. Now, in revenge, the European Council has launched a real blitzkrieg, in the style of General Erwin Rommel, to impose obedience on us – obedience that has suddenly now shamefully been given – as ‘parliaments’ from the 1930s, fascists or communists or as continental cowards.
You are afraid of words; of our hymn, our symbol, our name, of ‘laws’ – but this is a forbidden term, you prefer to call them ‘directives’. Those days are past: now, suddenly, it is the time of Great France, Strong Germany, the clerical and authoritarian, if not racist, party in Poland, an Italy that is good for nothing, that is, for everything. You are afraid just as the powerful and the over-bearing are afraid. We will fight against this disgrace: as European federalists, in the names of those whom you are betraying: Spinelli, Adenauer, Schuman, De Gasperi, Monnet. As radical federalists, of the Transnational and Transparty Non-violent Radical Party, and as members of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, which we fear is today making a mistake. I hope that the error is ours, but I am unfortunately convinced that it is not. Long live the European motherland! I vote ‘No’!"@en1
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