We voted against it secondly because it recommends subordinating the national parliaments to the European Parliament: the latter, secure in the strength of its superiority and, no doubt, its unbearable arrogance, would provide its support to the national parliaments – made up in its eyes, no doubt, of philistines and idiots – to examine European texts.
Ensuite, parce qu’il prône la subordination des parlements nationaux au Parlement européen: ce dernier, fort de sa supériorité et sans doute de son insupportable arrogance, apporterait son soutien aux parlements nationaux, sans doute composés à ses yeux de béotiens et d’incultes, pour examiner les textes européens.