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"Mr President, the foreign ministers of the EU countries who chose to continue with the ratification of the Treaty of Nice on Monday, as though the Irish had never said 'no' in the referendum, opted for the worst solution. In fact this risks confirming the view of many people that the European institutions under construction are deaf to the citizens' demands and that in the final analysis, beneath the ideological disguises, their real purpose is to confiscate the powers of the people.
The ‘no’ vote in the Irish referendum, like the ‘no’ vote in the Danish referendum last September, is a warning. The people are turning away from a Europe in which they cannot recognise themselves. To speed up federalism under these conditions would be the quick road to ruin. The Gothenburg Council may still have a chance of getting things back on an even keel.
What should it decide? First, it should decide to suspend the ratification of Nice by cancelling the General Affairs Council’s conclusions of Monday. Secondly, it should send a strong signal to the candidate states, inviting them to join the Union immediately, without any additional treaty, by acceding to the intergovernmental part of the existing treaties. It should then announce that the supplementary provisions on enlargement will be incorporated in the accession treaties. Finally, it should convene another intergovernmental conference, this time with the objective of establishing a Europe that respects its nations. This IGC would have to be based above all on the national parliaments and not on the new confiscation-based structure that is being invented just now. That is what we propose in our counter-report on the Treaty of Nice."@en1
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