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Declaration in writing of the vote of Marco Pannella according to the terms of article 163 of the Regulation governing the calling of the Intergovernmental Conference on the revision of the treaties.
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Strasbourg, July 11 2007.
Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Council and the Commission,
Unfortunately prophetic, even as long ago as 1942 in the Ventotene Manifesto your Europe of the Nations was already being denounced as the principal alternative threat to the United States of Europe, to the European Fatherland.
It was on the 14th of February 1984 that this very Parliament strove against this poisonous policy. Now, taking its revenge, the Council of Europe has waged a veritable blitzkrieg, like that of General Erwin Rommel, to impose obedience upon us, obedience to which suddenly today we shamefully acquiesce, through so-called “parliaments” like those of the nineteen-thirties, be they fascist or communist or tainted by continental cowardice.
Listen: and tremble at the words, at our paean, at our symbol, our name, our “laws” – the word is forbidden, you prefer “directives”.
The days have passed: suddenly it is the time of Great France, of Strong Germany, of the clerical and authoritarian, perhaps even racist, party in Poland, of an Italy which is good for nothing, or everything. It is the time to be afraid of the powerful, and of those who abuse that power.
As European federalists, we call to fight this decline in the names of those you betray: Spinelli, Adenauer, Schuman, De Gasperi, Monnet.
And by radical federalists, federalists of the Trans-party Transnational Non-violent Radical Party, as well as the dedicated members of the Liberal-Democratic Group, who we fear are this day making a mistake.
I pray the mistake may be ours, but alas I am certain this cannot be the case. Long live our Fatherland, Europe! AND I VOTE "NO"!
Mr. President, Gentlemen of the Council and the Commission,
Unfortunately prophetic, even as long ago as 1942 in the Ventotene Manifesto your Europe of the Nations was already being denounced as the principal alternative threat to the United States of Europe, to the European Fatherland.
It was on the 14th of February 1984 that this very Parliament strove against this poisonous policy. Now, taking its revenge, the Council of Europe has waged a veritable blitzkrieg, like that of General Erwin Rommel, to impose obedience upon us, obedience to which suddenly today we shamefully acquiesce, through so-called “parliaments” like those of the nineteen-thirties, be they fascist or communist or tainted by continental cowardice.
Listen: and tremble at the words, at our paean, at our symbol, our name, our “laws” – the word is forbidden, you prefer “directives”.
The days have passed: suddenly it is the time of Great France, of Strong Germany, of the clerical and authoritarian, perhaps even racist, party in Poland, of an Italy which is good for nothing, or everything. It is the time to be afraid of the powerful, and of those who abuse that power.
As European federalists, we call to fight this decline in the names of those you betray: Spinelli, Adenauer, Schuman, De Gasperi, Monnet.
And by radical federalists, federalists of the Trans-party Transnational Non-violent Radical Party, as well as the dedicated members of the Liberal-Democratic Group, who we fear are this day making a mistake.
I pray the mistake may be ours, but alas I am certain this cannot be the case. Long live our Fatherland, Europe! AND I VOTE "NO"!
