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"Mr President, the European Council will once again discuss the future of the Constitutional Treaty at its forthcoming meeting in Brussels. However, there is a saying that you should not flog a dead horse. The Constitutional Treaty, which was rejected in referendums by the French and the Dutch, is just such a dead horse, regardless of how many Member State parliaments ratify it. It is difficult to imagine that any French or Dutch leader would be willing to put the same document to their people again.
Moreover, in the Treaty there is a clear attempt to move towards a single European state, although in recent years Europe has witnessed trends in quite the opposite direction. Before our very eyes, eight independent states emerged from Yugoslavia. One of those countries is now in the European Union and the others are knocking at the European Union’s door. In Spain, the separatist tendencies in Catalonia are hard to overlook, while in Belgium it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain unity between Wallonia and Flanders. It is therefore impossible to accept a text which appears to steer against these patently obvious processes.
Let us therefore stop flogging this dead horse and deal with issues that are really important to Europe and its citizens. We need to support entrepreneurship and create new jobs, we need reforms to accelerate economic growth and increase tax revenues in order to allow greater spending on social programmes, education, public healthcare and pensions.
If the European Union is effective in resolving these problems, then Europe will also function well without the Constitutional Treaty."@en1
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