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"Mr President, my congratulations to Mr Vanhanen and the Finnish Presidency. You have passed the test. You have proved yourselves to be good Europeans and you have done so by ratifying the EU Constitution through your own parliament, ignoring the fact that in a recent opinion poll only one in four of your population supported that course of action. So Mr Barroso must be very pleased with you.
Your Presidency sums up the whole EU project: an exercise in political dishonesty, where the views of ordinary people count for very little. Well, the Constitution may be dead, but its contents most certainly are not and your Presidency Conclusions talk about the need for further enlargement. Under justice and home affairs you – and we heard Mr Barroso earlier – talk about the need to
decision-making. Well, that word means more power for the European Union. You praise the idea of a common energy policy and increasing activism in foreign affairs.
Carry on regardless! That has been the policy of the Finnish Presidency and you now hand over to Angela Merkel and the German Presidency and they are even more ambitious than you are. It is now clear that the plan is to come back with a new treaty. You are going to drop the dreaded C word. Will the French and Dutch be asked to vote again? No, of course they will not. That duty will fall to Ireland and possibly Denmark and you – nearly all of you in this room, all the EU institutions – will do everything they can with taxpayers’ money to bully those small countries into submission. In Britain it will not wash. We have already gone a treaty too far and the voice of the people will be heard.
We have seen this morning in this EU Parliament self-congratulation and backslapping. You all ought to be very thankful that the proceedings in this Chamber get so little press coverage. I think the general public of Europe would be appalled!
Thank you, and a happy Christmas to everybody."@en1
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