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Mr President, 2007 – this year of the German and Portuguese Presidencies – will go down in the history of European integration as the year of the ultimate snub to the peoples of Europe and to democracy.
The treaty that will be signed tomorrow in Lisbon is neither simplified nor consensual. It is nothing more nor less than a rehash of the Constitutional Treaty, to which the French nation said ‘no’. Yet most of you, along with Mr Giscard d'Estaing, are noisily celebrating.
To those of my French colleagues who support this Constitution-with-a-makeover I must therefore address a very solemn warning. The provisions of the treaty create a new state. That state is being imposed upon our people against their will and it will therefore have no legitimacy. The consequence is quite specific, and quite dreadful: the organs of the European Union and the texts that they produce will have to be regarded as unlawful. Soon, therefore, we shall have a pressing duty incumbent on us under international law: the duty of disobedience. I have nothing further to say."@en1
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