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Although not surprising, the debate and vote on this motion for a resolution are illuminating. Whilst expressing greater or lesser levels of indignation at the clear illegality and illegitimacy of this agreement and the way in which Parliament has been held in contempt throughout the process, the main political groups are now preparing to back it, demanding nothing more than pious guarantees that what has just been disrespected will be respected in future. The emphasis given to reservations about or disagreements with how the agreement was reached does not obscure the acceptance of its intolerable content. This is a veritable
through which the intention is to permanently enshrine in the constitutions of countries like Portugal the policies of outright rolling back of civilisation that have been implemented there. The President of the Commission and, with natural but minor differences, the main political groups – the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance and the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament – have come here to defend the content of this agreement that reproduces the discourse of Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy. It is enlightening that the objectives of the agreement are advocated immediately in the first item, with only the way in which they are to be achieved in doubt.
The Commission and this Parliament are essentially devoting themselves to their role as a mere adornment to the institutional architecture of the EU; as echo chambers for the guidelines emanating from those who are truly in charge: the Franco-German directorate, ever more dominated by Germany."@en1
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