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"Mr President, I gather from the work programme that the Commission – and I quote – would like to listen more to the citizens in order to involve them more in the policy process. As the Dutch cabaret artist Wim Sonneveld might have said:
‘that takes the biscuit’ – or something very like that. Perhaps I might remind the Commission that the European public, to whom it is referring, has already made its opinions abundantly clear, for example about the so-called European Constitution, and that they have, by means of referendums, consigned this project to the wastepaper basket in the Netherlands and in France, and that the Commission, despite everything, repeated only a few weeks ago that the spirit of this Constitution – whatever the citizen may think – should in any event remain intact. Listen to what I have to say about citizen involvement but do not, whatever you do, judge me by my actions.
Incidentally, there is no reference in the document to the petition of a million European citizens about the travelling circus, swallowing up millions, that is the European Parliament. I know, strictly speaking, it should be the Council that should be lectured on this, but the Commission – which interferes in God knows what anyway and whose own budget, moreover, is being slated year after year by the Court of Auditors – could have sent out a signal about the fact that the European citizens are fed up to the back teeth with the Eurocrats’ squandering of money and enjoyment of privileges. We should no longer keep quiet about this.
Then there is public opinion to consider. It is indisputable that the European citizens reject
the accession negotiations with Turkey – which is not a European country – and yet these negotiations are simply continued, undoubtedly also beyond December. This proves, in fact, that the so-called ‘open ending’ of the negotiations is nothing but total bunk and that the Eurocracy, including the Commission, decided a long time ago that the Turkish accession must, come what may, be rammed down the throats of these European citizens that have – or so they say – been listened to so well.
I should like to finish off with a final comment about an important matter, namely what is termed economic immigration and the idea that new immigrants must be attracted, which, if it was up to the Commission, would certainly not just be a handful of highly educated individuals. This view has just been confirmed by the President of the Commission himself. The absurdity of the idea that massive immigration of non-Europeans is economically profitable in order to alleviate the effects of the demographic situation in Europe has been demonstrated before.
The immigration that we have experienced first-hand is an immigration of people who cannot read or write, combined with religions and cultures that cannot be assimilated. Putting it bluntly, we are importing even more unemployment, even more rootlessness, along with the effects of this all, namely crime, run-down areas and
apartheid. This also involves enormous economic costs.
For those reasons, and many others, I conclude that we can do no other than express our disapproval of this work programme that is so full of platitudes and good intentions that cannot be kept and in which the essential concerns of the European citizens are completely overlooked."@en1
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