Seanad debates

Tuesday, 10 June 2003

Convention on the Future of Europe: Statements.

 

I will summarise by saying that we need some courage, mes amis. We do not need simply to tweak what has gone before, as if we do we will lose when we present it to the Irish people. The second referendum on the Nice treaty was won when people who believe in the European project and in ever-closer union, who were willing to define what such ideas mean to Irish people, took their arguments to the people. We will win a further referendum if we take a similar approach. We are destined to lose, however, if we falter or slide backwards by trying to qualify every move forward with half a dozen defences which look backwards. The latter approach is not worth a candle.

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