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"Mr President, the work programme presented here shows exactly how easily official Europe bandies about the crucial term ‘subsidiarity’.
In conclusion, and I fear this is not the first time I have said this in this Hemicycle, nor must it be the last, this official Europe apparently does not provide for democracy, does not provide for subsidiarity, does not provide a clear and sharp delineation of powers between Europe and the Member States. For this reason it also does not surprise me that this so-called Reform Treaty is, apart from a few cosmetic alterations, identical to the former Constitution and is therefore only a disguised version of this totally illegible, dark and veiled document that renders the normal functioning of citizen-controlled democracy out of the question.
The Commission thus assumes, entirely in keeping with Mr Frattini’s earlier initiatives, definitive jurisdiction over the legal aspect of labour migration, whereas in my view it is solely the remit of the Member States.
The Commission is putting pressure on European citizens with what I see as an extremely debatable response to the demographic challenges of another mass influx of workers from non-European countries, for which there is not the slightest democratic support or agreement from our own European citizens.
Let me be very clear about this: a new wave of immigration, even a legal one, with everything that accompanies a continuing migration and the so-called reunification of families, will make the existing and already very serious integration problems even worse, to say nothing of the brain drain that we are apparently shamelessly allowing to the detriment of the countries of origin.
This is at a time – and I want to emphasise this – when there are already millions and millions of former immigrants of non-European origin in Europe, some already third or even fourth generation, who are still unemployed and have barely educated themselves to the point where they can be integrated, let alone assimilated: a proletariat on social security.
It is remarkable that the Commission has also taken it upon itself to get involved in the education policy of the Member States. The communication on ‘Communicating Europe in Partnership’, to which this work programme refers, actually states that the Commission will examine how schools could best provide students with the key competences, and how school communities can help prepare young people to be
responsible citizens, in line with fundamental European values. I wonder: will enlightened European Mandarins in the future tell us how we must think, how we must behave? Is ‘Big Brother Europe’ already so close at hand?
The Commission claims to put its own European citizens first, but in reality it frequently behaves like an emperor or
; often ready with the lecturing finger and wagging head of a frustrated teacher. Mr Barroso himself came to the Netherlands earlier this year to tell the Dutch that that is quite enough now, that they had better not worry about a referendum and that it is high time for them to accept the principles of the European Constitution.
In this way these same great European democrats make every effort to ensure that our citizens do not have the chance to express their opinions regarding both the pseudo-Constitution and the possible accession of Turkey. Regarding my own country, Mr Barroso, together with other European Mandarins, is happy to come and tell us what to do about the problems between Flanders and Wallonia, while not even bothering to find out what is happening on the ground."@en1
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