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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance has always been a staunch supporter of the compelling need for a European Constitution, of a brief, strong text, an expression of European democracy and of the cohesion of its peoples.
We supported the Constitutional Treaty – albeit with its enormous defects – and today we hope that this confused thing, we cannot call it a simplified treaty because frankly that is a joke, which today you have presented to us, is ratified so that we can proceed, Mr Crowley, to the next stage.
We will not join in the glorification of this result, which contains only backward steps compared with the Constitutional Treaty. Fortunately, Prime Minister Sócrates, the IGC was short. I do not know, had it been longer, what other masterpieces of clarity the Council and its legal and diplomatic service would have given us. Therefore, mercifully it was short.
What matters to us today is to denounce those responsible for this situation, which we consider highly unsatisfactory: first of all, the European Convention and its President, who systematically refused to include in time on the agenda the breakdown of the dogma of the veto on amendments to the Treaty and today is paying the price with the systematic dismantling of his work and oblivion.
No one, including Prime Minister Sócrates, has recalled the work of the Convention, here; the pro-European advocates of not having referendums, who find themselves today empty-handed, with less democracy, more nationalism and more confusion. The British Government and the British media system, which with all of its airs of pragmatism and reliability, in reality have shamefully given in to the howls of Murdoch’s tabloids and – after helping to make the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the Constitutional Treaty much, much worse than what it could have been – have managed today to persuade public opinion that to have fewer rights, less protection, less transparency and less democracy is a great victory.
This Parliament and the Commission, which have decided to remain silent for two years pending a miraculous initiative from Mrs Merkel, the European Council and the governments who have decided to snatch away the process of reform of the treaties from public opinion and national parliaments and to play the card of entanglement and confusion to save what could be saved.
President, ratifications have now started, a process during which the Greens will not lie to public opinion. This text contains positive elements, but it is full of traps and spanners in the works. We will work so that the ratification and application of the new Treaty do not leave aside the fact that the path towards a truly free, open and democratic Europe is not over and that this is only a small stage, and is not even that glorious."@en1
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