Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-18-Speech-3-038"
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"Mr President, a prominent, popular Danish businessman wrote the following in yesterday’s
newspaper: ‘Europeans fully support international political cooperation and global responsibility. When EU citizens declare their support for democracy at national level, they of course also support democracy in a European context, and that is exactly what they are not getting’. We have been given repeated assurances that the Treaty of Lisbon cannot enter into force if even one country has rejected it, yet what did Mr Pöttering write in his statement of 13 June?
The rejection of the Treaty text by one European Union country cannot mean that the ratifications which have already been carried out by 18 EU countries become invalid.'
In the age of absolutism, kings and emperors met to agree on the division of power among themselves. Those days have returned. Prince Pöttering, Emperor Barroso and the rulers of their vassal states have decided that Europe’s citizens do not matter. Twenty-six countries were not allowed to vote, and the one country that did vote, Ireland, has discovered that it meant nothing. The Union has no popular mandate."@en1
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