21
Nov
2023
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Proposals of the European Parliament for the amendment of the Treaties (debate)
Mr President, in this debate it is necessary to recall the process of imposing the Treaty of Lisbon in the absence of the peoples, demonstrating the contempt and disrespect of the institutions of the European Union for the popular will, expressed in several countries, to clearly reject the said European Constitution. Now, and once again, starting from the farce that constituted the Conference on the Future of Europe, we are trying cautiously, by raising problems, to cover up the real fundamental objectives, including the end of the principle of unanimity in the decision-making process in the Council, calling into question the equality of states in the decision-making process and the legitimate prerogative to refuse decisions against the interests of their peoples, or the strengthening of mechanisms of conditioning, blackmail and interference, aimed at imposing neoliberal, militaristic and power-concentration policies on supranational institutions dominated by the great powers, which disregard the sovereignty of states and the interests of workers and peoples. Not a word about the changes that are really required: the repeal of the Lisbon Treaty, the Fiscal Treaty or the Stability Pact, among many others, which would pave the way for a Europe of effective cooperation between equal sovereign states in rights of social progress and peace.