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Mr President, Prime Minister, the Eurocrats of the Commission and of the Council must have breathed a huge sigh of relief on the evening of 22 April: for them, either Royal or Sarkozy, the UMP or the Socialist Party, were a guarantee that the European Constitution, which had been rejected en masse by two countries in 2005, was going to be put back on track, flying in the face of democracy. Both of them were ideal candidates, and potential Presidents. So was Mr Bayrou.
Sarkozy and Royal both gave the impression of believing, like yourselves, that the French only rejected the policies of Brussels, when they also rejected the institutional elements, which are now intended to be reintroduced via the backdoor, namely the single Foreign Minister – the single minister who, had he existed, would have taken us all into the Iraq war – the pseudo-elected President, the Commission reduced to civil servants from certain countries, and the communitisation of all policies, which denies the States any right to veto
in short, the bureaucratic and omnipotent European Superstate.
For you, it was better that Sarkozy should have been elected, rather than Royal, since the former wants the Constitution to be ratified by Parliament, while the latter intended to take some account of the popular will.
Following the appointment of a socialist Minister and a socialist Secretary of State for European affairs, and before there had hardly been time to transfer power from the old to the new President of the Republic, Mr Sarkozy rushed to Berlin to confirm that ratification would be by Parliament, that he was committed to a European Superstate and that he wished to be nothing more than the governor of a European province. The German Chancellor may rest assured: thanks to Mr Sarkozy, her Presidency of Europe will be a success! In June she will be able to present a roadmap relaunching the constitutional process and signing the death warrant for the nations and the sovereignty of the peoples.
Elected as he was by 53% of the French people, Mr Sarkozy is already betraying the aspirations of many of them, namely the 55% of citizens, from the right and from the left, who voted ‘no’ in May 2005."@en1
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"(Having been interrupted, the speaker addressed Mr Schulz, ‘What is the matter, Mr Schulz, are you ill?’, then corrected himself, ‘Ah yes, it is you, Mr Cohn-Bendit, go ahead and teach the little children!’)"1
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