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"Mr President, we keep being told that federalism has reached the high-water mark; that the nation state is here to stay and that the whole tenor of the debate has changed. And on one level, rhetorically, verbally, that is true. But of course, as we see in reports like this, the process of extending the corpus of EU jurisdiction – the number of Commission rulings against Member States, the expansion of the jurisprudence of the European Court – carries on without needing any new Treaty decisions, any new implementing decisions by the democratic nation states.
The days when the federalists were prepared to give battle openly, drawing up their lines with the sunshine gleaming from their greaves and their breastplates, are over. The one time that they tried that properly – on the referendums on the European constitution – it was a debacle for them. So we are back to this stealthy, silent encroachment of EU over national jurisdiction. The mistake that everybody makes in the Member States is to talk about federalism as a joke; the euro and the political integration, and so on, they snort with laughter. But when the laughter stops, the institutions remain in place."@en1
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