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The majority in Parliament, including the Portuguese socialists and social democrats, has adopted an all-singing, all-dancing report.
Under the cloak of a ‘period of reflection’, it says that there must be debate, yet, throwing caution to the wind, has already announced its conclusion: ‘to relaunch the constitutional project’; ‘to avoid another defeat’; ‘to deepen’ the ‘consensus around the Constitution’; ‘publicising’, with ‘adequate funding’, to ‘reassure and convince public opinion’; and to ‘ensure that the Constitution enters into force’, ‘during 2009’.
Quite apart from the fact that it does not have the power to do this, Parliament is trying to muddy the waters and make the fraudulent claim that the ‘European Constitution’ has not actually been rejected. It was rejected by the French and by the Dutch, whereupon it ceased to have any value, at least according to the Treaties.
It is no coincidence that UNICE, the European employers’ association, said in a letter to the Austrian Presidency: ‘there is an urgent need to find a way out of the current institutional crisis in the EU’. It goes on to say that the ‘pause for reflection… seems to be marked more by pause than reflection’.
Europe’s captains of industry and the political forces carrying out their guidelines are, once again against the wishes of the people, trying to regain the initiative."@en1
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