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This text, submitted to us as a Constitution for Europe, is the result of a misbegotten compromise in which all Europe’s social democrat governments have surrendered their peoples’ sovereignty to a supranational body.
This Constitution organises a state with the appearance of unity, hiding the federalist mechanisms within it. It is a hybrid organisation which, by making its mind known on every subject, and interfering in every area, enforces political choices that have tragic consequences for the future of the European peoples. It also represents the culmination of a slow and progressive process of political and legal stratification and the institutionalisation of a new totalitarian organisation. The Europe that is coming into being distances itself further from its citizens by impoverishing their societies.
These peoples are treated with contempt, and each consultation, be it parliamentary or in the form of a referendum, will ratify and confirm policies that are in fact already being implemented. By using the choice between Europe and chaos, itself a low form of extortion, and designed to force the hand of sovereign peoples, this Constitution’s supporters flout the basic rules of democracy.
We will not fall into the trap that this Europe represents, and we intend to denounce it at the forthcoming referendum in France. We can have another Europe – the Europe of free peoples and sovereign nations."@en1
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