Text tabled : A6-0347/2008

  Bruno Gollnisch (NI), in writing. – (FR) This report on the use of the European Union’s symbols by this Parliament is not a report; it is an act of ‘constitutional faith’, the expression of a quasi-religious credo!

The European Union’s symbols – flag, anthem and motto – no longer exist as such from a legal point of view since two European nations broadly rejected the European Constitution in 2005. Nor do they appear in the Lisbon Treaty, itself dead since the Irish vote. There is no European super-state!

Trying to make it exist through the use of these symbols could seem ridiculous, if it did not reflect your deep-rooted contempt for democratic expression and your desire to impose the supranational Eurocratic state at all costs.