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"Mr President, there was a wonderful symbolism this morning. One after another the speakers stood up and said that they would respect the Irish people. Then immediately afterwards in the vote we pushed through this report, which is the first step towards creating a common policy on immigration and asylum, which would have been a large part of the Lisbon Treaty.
If we were serious about respecting the vote of the Irish people, far from proceeding with this stealthy implementation of the provisions of that text, we would start reversing those parts that were brought in in anticipation of a ‘yes’ vote, including the European External Action Service and the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Mrs Wallström said this morning that it was important to find out why people had voted no. What had they been voting against? she asked. Let me help her with that: I suggest that they were voting against the Lisbon Treaty. The give-away was the ballot paper which asked whether they wanted to approve the Lisbon Treaty.
Mr Cohn-Bendit said that it would be quite wrong to have one million people deciding the fate of half a billion Europeans. Well, I am happy to agree with that. Give the half billion their referendums too."@en1
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