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A majority in this House unfortunately will not learn. Stubbornly refusing to face facts, it creates crises that nobody among the people really feels and, by promoting an illusion, it leads to disappointment and sows frustration.
It was not the method of the IGC that failed and the Convention that was successful. Quite the opposite. The Convention method demonstrated its limits and its fundamental untruth: the much-flaunted ‘consensus’ never existed.
It is a serious mistake to insist that the Irish Presidency should now act with the haste that caused the upset in Brussels. We need time and must make a calm, in-depth reassessment so that we do not make the same mistakes again or head for another failure.
All year I have been quoting a sentence from the famous Schuman Declaration: ‘Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.’ That is what has happened: the Constitution was not passed, because Europe ‘will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan’; but the important Growth Initiative was launched, because Europe ‘will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.’ It was the founding spirit of Robert Schuman that blew through the Brussels Summit.
I voted against the report. I do, however, support the paragraph that tries to clarify the points of agreement
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