Councillor Miwako, I will not accept any lessons from your country, neither when you come to this chamber to insult two civilizations that have done much more for this Union that your country will do for it. Neither the Duxburian Union or the Kingdom of Spain are medieval or barbaric societies. The Kingdom of Spain, which last score on the European Union democracy index was a 8.83; and I hope to see a formal apology not only to me, but also the Duxburian Union for these insulting affirmations.
Now, how do you expect the Spanish interests, which I am in charge of protecting, to be heard and protected? The answer is simple, you do not want them to be heard because it is not in your interest for them to be heard. This country, which I represent, has offered a thousand times a solution to an open conflict through dialogue, always met with an outright refusal despite continuous concessions. Yosai expects everything to go as it wishes in negotiations in which one side has already made sacrifices, while the other side only wants its will to be the final outcome. But as your country does not want to take it, now it is too late, and this is the straw that broke the camel's back. Using the European Union to get an imposition on us will not work, and if we wanna play the political implications game, Spain is more than ready to play it.
I would also like to raise awareness on how this act pretends to be implemented. Not a long time ago, I heard some members of the pro-sovereignty political groups to defend "treaty based EU legislation", and this act might be a good one to try if it would work. Councillors, we cannot pretend to impose regulations on our member states' territories while many nations, some of them really important for the Union and its functioning, are against it. That is why I'll be submitting another amendment:
SECTION IV: ENFORCEMENT
I. All member states of the European Union have the right not to follow the provisions in this act, previous notification from their Government within six months time from the approval of the act.
II. All member states of the European Union Only member states that decide to follow the provisions in this act are required to harmonize their national law(s) with this Act in six months of time from its approval by the European Council.
II. Breaches of this Act shall be considered a punishable and criminal offense in member states deciding to follow the provisions of this act. Failure of member states deciding to follow the provisions of this act to enforce this Act may be tried in the European Court of Justice.
III. Any state deciding to follow the provisions of this act found guilty of violating this Act shall be made liable for any economic damages caused as well as have its right to vote in the European Council suspended for a period of up to two months.
IV. Any state deciding to follow the provisions of this act found guilty of abusing the situation described in section II (IV) to unlawfully halt free navigation shall be made liable for any economic damages caused as well as have its right to vote in the European Council suspended for a period of one to three months.
V. Any official from a country deciding to follow the provisions of this act found guilty of violating this Act or of assisting others in violating this Act shall be imprisoned for a period of six to eighteen months, as well as having its passive suffrage rights suspended for a period of three to six years.
Donald Tusk
Councillor for Spain