Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-18-Speech-3-016"
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"en.20080618.2.3-016"2
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"Madam President, may I remind this House that the rule of law is more important than the laws themselves.
Lisbon required unanimity. Ignore that and you ignore the rule of law itself. The Irish are not just 10% of the EU, they are 100% of those allowed to vote and they all know, we all know, that others would have voted ‘no’ given the chance.
Lisbon was incomprehensible and the Irish knew why. Others would have voted ‘no’ given the chance. Suggesting now that the process should go on, devising clever ways of regenerating Lisbon in open defiance of public will, is an arrogance of breathtaking proportions and we have seen it all before. The Austrian Foreign Minister stood here after the rejection of the previous Treaty and boasted about 36 projects and institutions still going ahead; they still have no legitimacy after the failure of the Lisbon Treaty to get unanimity.
I have a message for you from Edmund Burke: ‘The people are the masters, not you, and you ignore that and the rule of law at your peril’."@en1
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"(Further loud protests)"1
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