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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, fortunately there are still patriots in Europe and obviously we shall call for a national referendum. We shall continue to call for referendums, because we believe in a Europe of peoples, not in a Europe of high finance which supports and funds that whole technocratic policy, that whole way of running the bedlam of the European institutions.
That is precisely the picture that emerges from the restyling of your Treaty – the confirmation of an institution dominated by a techno-bureaucracy answerable only to itself and feeding only itself. Where in this new version is there anything, for instance, reflecting the strong call to defend the European social model which emerged from the popular referendums; what answer have you given?
On the borders, no answer and continuing generic waffle about enlargement, without raising the geopolitical problem of Europe’s borders which, for us, is the key issue. An edifice such as Europe, which has its historic roots in the public law of the Holy Roman Empire, is not built by taking the value of the euro against the dollar as its spiritual horizon. There are other points of reference, especially, in our view, Europe’s Christian roots.
You will not solve the crucial problems facing Europe through your legal subterfuges or by letting yourselves be guided by the judgments of the European Court of Justice. States cannot be governed in that way, and nor can Europe’s future, Europe’s history. Long live the Europe of peoples, the Europe of Christian roots!"@en1
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