Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-06-13-Speech-3-038"
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"Mr President, I do not blame other European governments for ignoring the decision of the Irish people. The Irish Government themselves have ignored the mandate that they clearly got from the people. As Mrs Dybkjær has just said, what they have done is to tell the other EU governments to carry on as usual; they will then go back to the Irish people and get them to vote again until they get it right. They are going to ask the Irish people to vote again on the same Treaty with declarations attached which are not legally binding. That is completely unacceptable to the democratic process and our government is guilty of treachery in its approach to the Irish vote.
Enlargement can go ahead, but we want it to be fair and equitable. We would like to see the new Member States come in under the same conditions as those offered to Ireland. Instead, the doors have been tightly closed to keep those countries out until the rules are changed to suit the big and wealthy countries in Europe. That is not acceptable. The eastern European countries are being misled by those EU leaders who maintain that the "no" vote in Ireland was a "no" to enlargement. That is not so. As Mr Cox has said, we campaigned for enlargement but against the Nice Treaty, because it is not in the interests of the countries coming in, nor is it in the interests of the existing Member States. It merely serves the interests of the more powerful, and that is not a Europe that we want to see emerge in the future."@en1
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