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At the Brussels European Council of 25 and 26 March, in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Madrid, we might have expected fresh democratic and social impetus on the part of the Heads of State or Government, but no such thing was forthcoming. Much to the contrary, the Fifteen put the neo-liberal and militaristic draft European Constitution back on the agenda. They opted to pursue the Lisbon Strategy, a veritable war machine that makes jobs less secure and privatises public services. Finally, in a touching show of unity, the Fifteen re-launched the war on terror and undermined our civil liberties by calling our bluff with the State lies told by Bush, Blair and Aznar.
At the European Council, we might have expected to hear the whole truth about the illegal and illegitimate war in Iraq. The European Union could have demanded the withdrawal of all occupying forces and the transfer of sovereignty back to the Iraqi people. It could, similarly, have called for the construction of the wall between Israel and Palestine to be halted and for the settlements to be dismantled.
We might have also expected a new social and democratic Europe to be put in place, as a challenge to the hegemony of the markets and of eurocracy. This new joint resolution, however, drawn up by the conservatives, the socialists and the liberals, concerning the outcomes of the European Council, serves only to back up the duplicity and hypocrisy of European integration. We voted against it."@en1
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