Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-05-07-Speech-4-240"
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"This resolution forms part of a package of five resolutions, adopted today by the majority in Parliament, which shows the clearest possible contempt for the democratically and sovereignly expressed will of the French, Dutch and Irish peoples. It is also one of the many initiatives aiming to impose the unacceptable draft Treaty of Lisbon.
This resolution is characterised by its absurdity and its hypocrisy.
The EP may well rhetorically extol the ‘smooth, transparent and effective exercise of the right of participation of the citizens’ and the so-called ‘citizens’ initiative’ introduced in the draft Treaty, now known as the Treaty of Lisbon. The truth is that the forces guiding and promoting this European integration and this Treaty of Lisbon have done and are doing everything they can to prevent the people from debating and understanding the content of this draft Treaty and from being consulted through a referendum.
What is more, following the Irish rejection of this federalist, neoliberal and militaristic draft Treaty, they are doing everything they can to force another referendum to be held in that country (as many times as necessary until the Irish people say ‘yes’).
In other words, they are preventing the people from expressing their democratic and sovereign will through a referendum and then, with honeyed words, they are throwing up a smokescreen by extolling a so-called ‘citizens’ initiative’, which, on the face of it, will right from the start be subject to many conditions."@en1
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