Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-12-16-Speech-2-029"
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"Mr President, however it may appear, the Brussels Council on the European Constitution failed for three reasons.
Firstly, the Convention claimed to have reached a consensus, but that was not true. The IGC has simply unmasked the lie of the Convention.
Secondly, Spain and Poland’s opposition over the method of calculating the qualified majority was in fact motivated by profound differences, which were shared by other States although they did not say so openly: the rejection of a unitary Europe run supranationally by a coopted elite. Our thanks are due to those countries for defending Europe’s true interests.
Thirdly and lastly, the intransigence of those who clung to the qualified majority formula proposed by the Convention showed that in reality they did not want it to succeed. Perhaps because they thought the Convention’s conclusions were not as good as all that. But perhaps especially because, knowing the state of mind of their fellow citizens, they wanted to defer the problem until after the European elections. In reality, Mr President, it was the citizens who blocked the European Constitution, even though they were not consulted directly."@en1
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