Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-06-08-Speech-3-035"
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"Mr President, I congratulate the people of France and Holland on bringing deliverance to all those in Europe who value democracy and national liberty. The situation that now exists challenges the democratic credentials of EU leaders. You set the test for the survival of the Constitution: ratification by all 25 Member States. You lost. It is time to face up to it and bury the corpse that is the EU Constitution. Your attempts to resuscitate it are as distasteful as they are ill-fated.
Mr Watson’s reference back to 1787 tempts me to go back a little further. It is not the first time that Holland has saved Europe from political tyranny. This very week in that most notable of years 1690, William, Prince of Orange, landed at Carrickfergus in my constituency and brought us in the United Kingdom the Glorious Revolution and the Williamite settlement, which to this day is the basis of freedom ..."@en1
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