Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-12-01-Speech-3-067"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-12-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparation of European Council of 10-11 December 1999 in Helsinki2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991201.7.3-067"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-12-01-Speech-3-0682
lpv:speaker	lp:Ole Krarup2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; PETI (1999-10-08--2001-09-09)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; EDD (1999-07-20--2001-12-10)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Folkebevægelsen mod EU (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with South-east Europe (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"In fact, there is no doubt about the agenda for the Summit. It will be planning the Intergovernmental Conference with a view to the enlargement of the European Union. A drastic extension to the Union’s powers is on the agenda. These are the crucial building blocks for a United States of the European Union, that is to say for a real federal State. There is one significant point I want to concentrate on in my speech, namely the Commission’s remark in its contribution for the Summit to the effect that, if the political will is sufficiently strong, it will be possible to conclude the planned Intergovernmental Conference successfully before the end of the year 2000. One wonders whose political will are we talking about? Earlier, I heard one speaker say that we must be careful not to lose our citizens. Yes, but is that not putting the cart before the horse? Is it not our citizens who govern our society, or is it ourselves, sitting here and fashioning democracy? What kind of absurdity is this? If the people of Europe were to be asked whether they wanted the kind of empire-building that is on the agenda, extremely different answers would be obtained. We have asked this question in Denmark, for example. On the few occasions we did ask the people – and we also asked the French people in 1992 – we received an answer indicating very serious public reservations about such a development. But our citizens are not being asked, and my advice to this Intergovernmental Conference, before the empire-building gets too well under way, is: ask the people of Europe whether they want developments to take this course. I personally am sure of the answer. This is something they do not want. We have already lost our citizens, as may be very clearly seen from the results and the turnout at the last elections to this Parliament."@en1

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