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"Mr President, what happened in France and in the Netherlands a few days ago can be summed up very briefly. The people wished to disassociate themselves from what Mr Barroso has called ‘Brussels’. That means, the people of Europe no longer have confidence in Brussels. Secondly, the second thing that is clear is that the Constitution is dead. It died in Paris and has been buried in Holland.
I agree with Mr Cohn-Bendit’s remark, ‘I do not want to tell any more lies’, and I call upon all European leaders to reject Europe’s scornful attitude and cease to be spokesmen for the European machine against their people and to become instead, quite simply and democratically, the spokesmen for their people among their peers.
What do the people want? They want to remain free. In practical terms, therefore, that means deciding to suspend immediately the negotiations on the accession of Turkey. It means saying immediately that, in future, we will respect, and Europe will respect, the principle of national sovereignty. We must press for the notion of collaborative organisations of many kinds – political, industrial and scientific – all conforming to the principle of free membership and free cooperation. That is the formula for the future.
Finally, and I will conclude here, we must put in place new mechanisms which will allow for a return to the common European preference, at least in those industrial sectors that are vulnerable, such as the textile industry. Ladies and gentlemen, that is the only formula that can possibly save Europe and re-engage and win back the people."@en1
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