Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-03-Speech-3-053"
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"en.20030903.4.3-053"2
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"Mr Giscard d'Estaing emphasised that the core of the draft constitution drawn up by the Convention was the acknowledgement of the ‘dual nature’ of the European Union, which is thereby seen as proceeding from both the citizens and its States. This specious distinction implies that the States exist without reference to the will of their citizens. The reality, then, is that it is preparing a future alteration to the States’ democratic legitimacy and changes the nature of the EU, which has up until now been a union of states representing their peoples. An extremely pernicious bacillus has thus been introduced into the new ‘constitutional treaty’, which is itself founded upon a mythical being, the ‘European citizen’, reminiscent of the former ‘proletariat’, to which one can attribute whatever intentions one likes. Mr Giscard d'Estaing was doing no other when he declared that ‘European citizens’ were awaiting with extreme impatience a European constitution, a European foreign policy, a European minister of foreign affairs, and so on. Such a basis can be a hazardous one in all sorts of ways, all the more so in view of the character of the ‘new man’ that the ‘European citizen’ is, which is marked by oblivious barbarism, as demonstrated by the refusal of the members of the Convention to make reference in their text to the historic role played by the Christian faith in the real constitution of Europe."@en1
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