Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-14-Speech-3-159"
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"Essentially, I very much want to say that I emphatically refuse to see the draft Constitutional Treaty buried today.
Let us reject outright this pervasive and unhealthy preoccupation with failure. Let us give ourselves the chance to make progress. Let us continue with the process of ratification so as to attain the four-fifths threshold laid down in Declaration 30.
If we do so, the European Council will, as we know, have to tackle the issue. It will then have rather more issues to puzzle over than it does at present, and in particular:
that of whether and, if so, under what conditions, ratification might again be sought in those countries that rejected the Constitutional Treaty in referendums;
and that of how to safeguard at least those parts of the document that make the Charter of Fundamental Rights legally binding, those that enable the enlarged Europe to operate more efficiently and, moreover, those that accentuate the EU’s social role.
Do not tell me that a majority of people are opposed to those aspects of the document. I do not believe that they are.
Admittedly, this would not please those who are past masters in the art of doubt and demoralisation. I personally, however, wish to set in motion again the virtuous circle constituted by the process of European integration."@en1
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