– (DE) Madam President-in-Office of the Council, as you seek to resurrect the co
nstitutional treaty from the grave to which the plebiscites in France and the Netherlands long ago consigned it, do not forget that those who approved this EU constitution in the other Me
mber States were an aloof political class rather than anything resembling a majority of their populations, and that class is still baffled by the lack of enthusiasm and the scepticism about the EU manifested by the people, who, of course, are sovereign
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