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"Mr President, Mr Barroso has just spoken for ten minutes and in those ten minutes he spoke for barely a minute about the Irish referendum and the actual ratification process. We are certainly used to some arrogance on the part of the Commission, but this beats everything. Apparently the referendum is not important any longer. We carry on with the agenda. Obviously the idea is that Ireland now just has to sort out the problems for itself. Well, Ireland has said what it thinks and it does not have to do so again.
In fact, Mr Barroso, the Irish referendum carries more weight than the ratification by parliaments in the other Member States. There is hardly a single Member State in which the ruling party has gone to the electorate with its programme for Europe. There has not been any public debate of the Treaty. In Belgium, for instance, the arguments against the Treaty were not even set out by the media at the time of the parliamentary debate. Nowhere were the voters able to say what they thought about your plans. Is that the democracy we want? Europe has to stop being so patronising and arrogant, or it will just become more and more isolated from its citizens."@en1
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