Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-12-18-Speech-2-027"
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"Mr President, can I say how much I enjoyed watching you signing the 2008 budget for the European Union earlier this afternoon and – who knows? – perhaps this year the auditors might sign the accounts as well. That would be rather fun would it not?
Mr Sócrates, I have no doubt you are delighted with your Presidency and the fact that last Thursday you got this Treaty signed in that magnificent monastery in Lisbon. But I cannot join in the congratulations of the other Group leaders because to me this simply is not straight dealing. Because what was signed at Lisbon was a constitutional treaty. It is identical in content to the Constitution that was kicked into touch by the French and by the Dutch.
All you have done is you have dropped the ‘c’ word for fear that will cause offence, you have renumbered the articles and you have given us a treaty. Frankly, what you have been engaged upon is nothing better than a giant deceit. A deliberate attempt to force the Constitution upon the peoples of Europe but without having the courage to call it that.
It is dishonest; it is designed purely to stop there being referendums in Member State countries. And, behind all of this, is this new and I think extremely dangerous form of Euronationalism, the desire to create this state. And it does not take ‘no’ for an answer, and it is not prepared to stop at anything. You only have to see in this Chamber when the anthem – the anthem which is not even supposed to be in the new Treaty – is played and you see people standing here, ramrod straight. The European project is about nationalism.
To impose upon people a new nationality, a new legal order without first seeking their consent is a damn dangerous thing to do. So please finish your Presidency well. Keep your promise to your people in Portugal. Give the people in Portugal a referendum. That will encourage the other Member States to do the same. Frankly, if this Treaty is as good as you say it is, then go out there and sell it to the peoples of Europe."@en1
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