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"Mr President, President-in-Office of the Council, President of the Commission, ladies and gentlemen, I personally feel that Mr Bonde’s wonderful speech – although a friend asked me whether he was announcing the end of the world – is like a carefree drawing produced by an unhealthy imagination like that which created Goya’s monsters. If we follow the Convention experts, the mixture of Community and intergovernmental, the distribution of legislative, executive and so on, we will find ourselves in a period of total decadence, where we do nothing but destroy any remnants of the classical which brought us to this point.
I hold up to you the Europe of Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi. Why? Because these Europeans conceived the European federation inside Fascist prisons. This is just one name: the prisons were Fascist, Communist, Nazi, Clerical, Counter-reformist, of all kinds. Their dream was to eliminate the monsters of nationalist degeneration, of minority groups which wanted to establish themselves on a legal basis to the detriment of others.
Mr President, I would just like to make one, very brief point: this debate is an affront to the parliament which has chosen to hold it. We should have discussed this on 18 June during the mini part-session. The President-in-Office of the Council could have given us hard facts then, and we would have known what they would actually have discussed at Thessaloniki. Today, they are simply telling us what is in the papers. Parliament is demeaning itself. We should have refused to hold a debate when it is not known what the proposed decisions will be, and I am very disappointed that none of the other Members have made this point. We would have met on 18 and 19 June, and the Council would have taken place in Thessaloniki on 20 and 21 June. Things sometimes happen better by chance than by Europe’s political logic.
This time I greatly appreciated Mr Wurtz’s speech, for the first time in 20 years, I think. When he said that ‘we are facing an identity crisis’, he was right. But what defining parameter does the identity crisis refer to? How do we define our identity? Either we place ourselves in the history of continental Europe, which over the past 100 years has unceasingly produced all kinds of monsters, including our institutional monstrosities, which bear no relation to the transparency of the rule of law and its functioning, or if not, you are already creating a new anti-liberal, anti-democratic, anti-humanist monster out of this Europe of counter-reform and of a thousand violent and murderous tendencies. It was not by accident that we, or rather you, found yourselves on Saddam’s side in actual fact, as regards Iraq. Let us admit that Mr Solana still sees Mr Arafat, despite the fact that there is another possibility, that of Mr Abu Mazen, created by Mr Sharon and Mr Bush. As in the forties, you are the heirs of a Europe that the England of the past and America freed. We need to free ourselves of you, and we shall!"@en1
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