Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-12-18-Speech-2-029"
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"Mr President, on 13 December the leaders of the EU Member States signed the Reform Treaty in Lisbon, i.e. the renamed, late lamented European Constitution. Sadly the signatories did not know what they were signing; they did not know because a consolidated version of it does not exist. Every so often the Treaty makes reference to some other document, and that leads on to more references. It is deliberately this complicated so that no-one can get their head around what it contains. To conclude, there are 25 pages of explanations, with three columns linking the article numbering of the old treaty to the provisional numbering of the Treaty of Lisbon, and to the numbering that will apply after the consolidated version is completed – total chaos.
Portugal, are you not ashamed that such a half-baked document bears the name ‘Treaty of Lisbon’? Portugal, are you not ashamed to have to accept the humiliation of the timetable imposed under the German Presidency as part of standardisation? Portugal, are you not ashamed of cheating Europeans by presenting something for their acceptance that they do not want; something they would certainly reject in the event of a referendum, and something they have rejected once already? Shame on you, Portugal!"@en1
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