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"en.20120418.18.3-240-000"2
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"The adoption of this report comes in the wake of the shameful blackmailing and manipulation of the Irish people in order to impose the Treaty of Lisbon by anti-democratic means. The approval of what has been termed an ‘additional protocol responding to the concerns of the Irish people’ is nothing more than an attempt to legitimise something that, according to the most basic democratic principles, cannot be legitimised. The Irish were the only people not to be prevented from expressing their views in a referendum, due to a constitutional requirement. Their rejection of the Treaty of Lisbon was undeniably an obstacle to the attempt – involving unacceptable chicanery and flagrant trickery – to impose a draft treaty that had previously been rejected, thereby disrespecting and seeking to bypass the will of the peoples of France and the Netherlands. No amount of manoeuvring can legitimise a treaty that results from an anti-democratic process and that, as circumstances have shown, has created the conditions for stepping up the attack on national sovereignties and reversing the rights and victories of the common people.
This and previous treaties need to be rescinded in order to safeguard democracy and uphold the effective participation of citizens. It is essential to defend national sovereignty and the role of national institutions so as to promote effective democracy instead of devaluing it."@en1
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