Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-02-20-Speech-3-161"
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"en.20080220.10.3-161"2
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"Well might the majority of the European Parliament – which includes members of the Portuguese socialist (PS), social democrat (PSD) and popular right (CDS/PP) parties – proclaim their ‘approval’ of the proposed EU Treaty which, as many well know, has no value or legal consequence.
They have a different objective: pressure, specifically to ensure that the proposed Treaty is ratified so that it can enter into force on 1 January 2009, and propaganda.
That is why the report deals in obfuscations and omissions, in an attempt to conceal the real content and consequences of the proposed EU Treaty. To give just a few examples:
On the one hand it describes as ‘greater effectiveness’ the increased domination of the decision-making process by the great powers of the EU and as ‘an increased role for the national parliaments’ the transfer of the national parliaments’ competences to the supranational institutions of the EU. On the other hand, it omits: the militarisation of the EU within the framework of NATO; the liberalised single market with its free movement of goods, capital and services in which competition is paramount; Economic and Monetary Union with its euro, its European Central Bank and its Stability Pact; and the liberalisation of international trade as EU policies and objectives.
That is why we voted against it."@en1
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