Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-01-17-Speech-3-025"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-01-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Programme of the German presidency (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070117.3.3-025"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-01-17-Speech-3-0262
lpv:speaker	lp:Andreas Mölzer2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFCO (2007-01-15--2007-01-30)3 unknown; Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; ITS (2007-01-15--2007-11-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Madam President-in-Office of the Council, as you seek to resurrect the constitutional treaty from the grave to which the plebiscites in France and the Netherlands long ago consigned it, do not forget that those who approved this EU constitution in the other Member States were an aloof political class rather than anything resembling a majority of their populations, and that class is still baffled by the lack of enthusiasm and the scepticism about the EU manifested by the people, who, of course, are sovereign. They then attribute this weariness with Europe to the fact that the constitution is not yet in place, and blame its absence for the fact that the Council still conducts its business behind closed doors, believing that the way to remedy democratic deficits is to hand over even more powers to the Commission. What a perverse way of looking at things! Things really are getting comical when the proposal is made for a Europe-wide referendum on the constitution with the suggestion being made at the same time that those states that do not accept it might want to consider whether they want to stay in the EU at all. We do not though, Madam President-in-Office of the Council, need a constitutional monster with centralising tendencies; on the contrary, we must, at last, allow our citizens to play their part in taking important decisions and resolve, as is long overdue, such problems as globalisation, migration and unemployment. You would be better advised to concentrate on delivering on one of your core election promises by preventing Turkey from joining the EU, for that is something you owe not only to your German compatriots, but also to Europeans as a whole, and to spend Germany’s time in the presidency in seeking to resolve, once and for all, the problem of mass illegal immigration in the south of the EU; you would thereby be doing a far better service to the European identity of national and cultural diversity, which you so rightly praise, than you would be reanimating a long-dead constitutional treaty."@en1

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