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"The European Council’s decisions – if you ignore all the rhetoric and demagogy that always accompanies them – lay bare the real objectives and policies of the EU.
Having prevented everyone else from expressing their view in a referendum, they are now imposing a new referendum on those people who sovereignly and democratically rejected this proposed Treaty.
What is more, the Irish people will be confronted with a referendum on the same Treaty (content), accompanied for the time being by a ‘political commitment’ to be legally fulfilled on the future accession of Croatia in 2010 or 2011.
In this way they are trying to impose a qualitative leap in the neoliberalism, federalism and militarism that this proposed Treaty represents, in the interests of big business and the major powers.
The same European Council is also heading towards a new stage in the militarisation of the EU and international relations, by preparing for the next NATO Summit (in April 2009) and consolidating the EU as its European pillar.
As we have previously stressed, such decisions clearly indicate the antidemocratic nature of the EU, which is inseparable from the position it assumes as an imperialist bloc.
As regards the ‘plan to relaunch the European economy’, this involves exactly the same policy, as the priority will be to respond to the interests of the major powers and financial capital."@en1
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