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"(DA) This case is interesting. It reveals totally rotten law and no less rotten policy. I consider that these persistent colleagues, who are keen to give their own ruling in the case brought before the Court, thus pre-empting the course of events by pronouncing a judgment without court proceedings, in obvious violation of Article 213, and depriving the man of his pension rights, are usurping a function which is rightly a matter for the courts. It is rotten law and it is rotten policy. However, I will take another starting point and say that I, representing the Danish opponents of the Union, the People"s Movement against the EU, owe Mr Bangemann a debt of gratitude. It was Mr Bangemann who, as a Commissioner in 1992, spoke the truth concerning the Maastricht project. The truth which is evident today, namely that the large States have unlimited power and outrageous dominance over small, less fortunate States such as the State which I represent, Denmark. It was Mr Bangemann who, in this way, secured the Danish ‘no’ to the Maastricht Treaty on 2 June 1992, which put the skids under the process which we call the democratisation process. We now owe Herr Bangemann a debt of gratitude for yet another eye-opener. Mr Bangemann has breached a few regulations, but we are not here to defend
s competitors. We are not here to reproach Mr Bangemann for damaging trust in this project. Mr Bangemann simply transgressed the very, very broad and flexible boundaries of greed and the merging of private and public, which is a vital part of the European Union. Mr Bangemann"s offence is that he has made this fundamentally corrupt system visible, so that any European voter could see it and therefore choose to stay at home on voting day, as most people did between 10 and 13 June, thus depriving this assembly of any form of democratic legitimacy. That was all I wanted to say."@en1
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