Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-10-Speech-3-033"
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"Mr President, what is it we are discussing today? A constitution for Europe. We are discussing a document under a different name, with different wording, but with the same essential content as the constitution that has already been rejected. This is an allegedly lower-ranking document, just so that it does not have to be put to referendums. Here we have the EU’s political elites, among them members of this House, the European Commission and national governments, trying to deceive their own electorates and their peoples.
We are supposed to support a Reform Treaty which is in reality the European Constitution, the renamed European Constitution, which the voters in France and the Netherlands rejected in referendums, and a number of other countries failed to ratify within the prescribed time.
Let us recall the words of Angela Merkel, and I quote − use different terminology without changing the legal substance, for example with regard to the title of the treaty, the denomination of legal acts, and the Union’s minister of foreign affairs – end of quote.
That is exactly what has been done, and we are being called on to accept this deception. We must not deceive ourselves and our voters."@en1
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