Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-06-22-Speech-3-056"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-06-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European Council/Luxembourg Presidency2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050622.13.3-056"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-06-22-Speech-3-0572
lpv:speaker	lp:Nils Lundgren2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2007-06-12)3 vice-chair; CONT (2004-07-23--2007-01-14)3 substitute; ECON (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Junilistan (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ITRE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, the referenda in France and the Netherlands and last week’s summit genuinely revealed the European project as an elite project without grass-roots support. Calling the people’s decision a crisis clearly demonstrates a genuine lack of belief in a democratic Europe. We must now state that the draft Constitution has come to nothing according to the EU’s own rules. Two founder countries have already rejected it. The matter is clear, so the question is: what shall we do now? In my view, we must arrange a new Convention that must be appointed democratically so as to reflect the peoples’ opinions on this issue and not the elite’s. Three different issues must not then be mixed up, as has now happened. It was an attempt to impose upon the people of Europe something they did not want. Firstly, there is a need to edit together treaties that have already been entered into so that they are clear and easy to understand. That is no great political issue. Rather, it is just a matter of simple editing. Secondly, we must revise the form to be taken by the rules for decision-making in those areas in which we have already said that we must take joint decisions. Thirdly, the draft Constitution included all sorts of plans for common defence, a common foreign policy and a host of other things that absolutely should not have been addressed in this context. Such issues should not be included in what looks like a Constitution. Instead, these are issues for the people of Europe to debate in the future. We must begin again from the beginning, show respect for the people’s decision and then review that decision from a democratic point of view with democratically elected people in the form of a Convention."@en1

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