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"Mr President, I have been listening to everything that has been said here up to now with clear-headed, and thus very great, scepticism. After all, our own experience – gathered from the referendums in the Netherlands, France and, last but not least, Ireland – has taught us how the eurocracy responds to the will of the people and expressions of this will. What is this European Citizens’ Initiative, in essence? In essence, it is a mere palliative, a sham intended to suggest a modicum of citizens’ involvement in the Treaty of Lisbon without really bringing that involvement into the decision-making process. Indeed, this is clear from everything we have learned up to now: complicated procedures, constraints on the topics and, if anything should emerge in the end, this is to be considered and, in particular, decided on in exactly the same eurocratic, rather undemocratic cenacles as before. What we need in Europe are binding referendums, for example, on the accession of Turkey. These are necessary in order to restore democracy but, unfortunately, the European Citizens’ Initiative is merely a kind of castrated caricature of such things."@en1
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