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"Mr President, I would like to comment on a letter that was printed in an Irish national newspaper last week and was signed by, among others, several Members of this Parliament. The context is that Ireland will probably be the only country to have a referendum on what will now surely be called the ‘Treaty of Lisbon’. In this letter three demands were made. One of the demands is that the Treaty must be submitted to the citizens in a referendum in each Member State. The second demand goes so far as to demand that the EU national parliaments make appropriate legal and constitutional provisions to allow for referenda.
I have to say that I find these demands astonishing. What about the principle of subsidiarity, where decisions are taken at the most appropriate level, in this case, at the level of the Member States? I suspect that, in some convoluted way, those who want less interference from Europe are in fact themselves promoting the ultimate interference in the business of Member States by demanding that national parliaments change their constitutions and legal provisions to suit the wishes of the letter-writers. That would surely be a democratic deficit!"@en1
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