The last European Council in Brussels on 23 June 2007 decided Entrusting an Intergovernmental Conference to work by the end of the year to draft a new EU treaty "simplified", following the rejection by French and Dutch peoples of the Constitutional Treaty.
The President of the French Republic, then his foreign minister, nevertheless explained the outlines of this new "simplified" treaty. It appears that
about the system and the mode of European decisions, social issues, values that constitute the Union and significant action on the readability of the Union.
The new "simplified" treaty will have major consequences and to direct the lives of our citizens and our institutions.
This implies that it is subject to a referendum.
Firstly, under the French Constitution, therefore, that this new Treaty will amend the functioning of our institutions should be subject to popular approval.
Secondly, if the need exists to reconcile completely the European Union and the peoples of Europe, so this Treaty shall also be their case.
The previous Treaty, said Constitutional showed that the parliamentary vote was not the route by which people could identify. And if this new Treaty is a synthesis between the proponents of the "no" and "yes" and said the President of the Republic, then what can he fear from a referendum? The arguments of the Minister of Foreign Affairs according to which ratification by parliament avoid the drawbacks previously found could not be admissible.
Democracy is not negotiable. She can not suffer a sidelining of a lack of ownership by the European peoples of the European construction. The return policy requires that our people be consulted. He defeated the previous treaty. He must speak to this new treaty. It's a double requirement: national and European level.
We therefore solemnly call on the President of the French Republic to submit the new treaty for ratification of our people and to decide how to organize a referendum.
Whether you're for or against this new Treaty, Europe will not be against the people. It will not happen without them. It will necessarily be with them!
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