Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-23-Speech-2-050"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-10-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Results of the informal summit of heads of state and government (Lisbon, 18-19 October 2007) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20071023.7.2-050"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-10-23-Speech-2-0512
lpv:speaker	lp:Jean-Marie Le Pen2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; ITS (2007-01-15--2007-11-13)3 member; INTA (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Front national (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Canada (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, two and a half years after the French and the Dutch rejected the European Constitution, in Lisbon on 19 October the European Council adopted the simplified Reform Treaty, which is a very bad name for it since it has been made more complex and only marginally ‘reforms’ the rejected Constitution. In short, they are trying to pull the wool over our eyes and convince us that this text has nothing in common with the previous one, to avoid facing up to the people of Europe with a referendum. You seem to be saying that this is too serious a matter to be entrusted to the people. Well, we think the exact opposite. Insofar as this is a cut-and-paste of the European Constitution, it deserves to be put to a referendum on ratification in each country, starting with France and the Netherlands. Only a referendum can cancel what another referendum has decided. Today, without trying to be party political, I am launching a big petition in my own country to try to make the French President who initiated the European mini-treaty do a U-turn and offer a referendum. This is about the future of our respective nations, their sovereignty, independence, identity and freedom. We cannot, for example, give responsibility for representing us abroad to a High Representative, any more than we can watch our seat on the United Nations Security Council being challenged in the name of the legal personality of the European Union. Or allow our judicial and legislative corpus to be dismantled by judges in Luxembourg. The parties to such a denial of democracy would carry a heavy burden of responsibility before history."@en1

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