Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-10-Speech-3-040"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-10-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation of the informal summit of heads of state and government (Lisbon, 18/19 October 2007)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20071010.16.3-040"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-10-10-Speech-3-0412
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, whether we rejoice or lament, everyone agrees that the Treaty to be signed in Lisbon is just a recycling of the European Constitution rejected by two referendums in 2005. As a report yesterday by the House of Commons pointed out, it has everything: the primacy of European law, even secondary law, over national law, even constitutional law; legal personality for the EU, which will allow the Commission to represent the Member States on the international stage; the Minister of Foreign Affairs under another name; the largest transfer of competences in the entire history of European integration; at least forty new subjects; and the vast field of fundamental rights. Within these walls, where the word ‘democracy’ is constantly on our lips, I would like to try and appeal to the consciences of you all. What genuine democracy could think it normal to bring into force a text that the people have rejected in a referendum? Why should the people be deprived of their right to express themselves on the new Treaty and on any fresh enlargements? What sort of political regime do you think you are building by subordinating our democracies a little further to a system characterised by no separation of powers, no political accountability on the part of governments and no representation of the people, except of a single European people? The Italian federalist Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa has already given the answer. I quote: ‘Between the two poles of popular consensus and the leadership of a few governments, Europe has been created by a method that could be defined by the term “enlightened despotism”’. He is right! And the people’s no to their enlightened despotism has convinced federalists that they have to proceed once more under cover, because the only difference between the rejected Constitutional Treaty and the one that is coming is that the first one did not lie."@en1

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