Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-14-Speech-3-163"
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"How many times will it be necessary to repeat in this House that the European Constitution has twice expired: once on 29 May 2005 in France, and again on 2 June in the Netherlands? The French and Dutch ‘no’ votes were clear and were delivered with full knowledge of the facts. Because referendums were organised, people had a proper grasp of the document. What they were rejecting were both the form (the superstate) and the content (the ultraliberal policies proposed), not to mention enlargement to include Turkey. Have you heard? Have you been listening? Have you understood? You have not even taken the trouble to do so, and the document put to the vote today is proof of the fact.
You are encouraging those Member States that have not already done so to ratify, preferably through parliamentary means, a document that no longer has reason to exist and to do so in order that the debate might really only take place between the initiated and in order that the two ‘renegade’ states might be constrained into voting again on a Constitution. Plan D, whose implementation you call for, is in reality a plan for disinformation and is a denial of democracy. The true democracy we seek in this case is not participatory or even representative. It is referendum democracy, and that is what frightens you: giving back to the nations the voice that you took from them."@en1
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