Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-10-10-Speech-3-037"
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"Mr President, Heads of State and Government are once again engaged in modifying the way the European Union functions by giving it a new treaty. This concern for the peoples of Europe and their future is touching.
But we cannot have the decisions of an informal summit replacing the democratic path of referendums held in the individual states on whether to accept the treaty. It would be a deceit practised on the peoples of Member States who have a right to decide independently on a matter of such importance.
The old constitutional treaty has been subjected to an operation which essentially consists in some slight modification to the text. This enables the document as a whole to be presented, depending on current political needs, either as an entirely new document, or as the previous treaty with no fundamental changes. I therefore wish to ask: how do the Council and the Commission define the document in question? Is this a new treaty, or is it a trimmed-down version of the old treaty, and will the process of ratifying it begin from scratch in all Member States?"@en1
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