Især fordi den institutionelle revision, der er nødvendig før udvidelsen og hovedformålet med Amsterdam-topmødet, ikke gennemføres med de minimumsmål, der er påkrævede. Og desuden - og det er blevet sagt her i salen - fordi den metode, der fortsat har været metoden til udformning af traktaten, er en diplomatisk metode med en mellemstatslig logik, der er langt fra borgerne og endda fra deres repræsentative parlamentariske institutioner.
Because it makes inadequate provision for either social protection or the regulation of the market in the face of the predominance of, not so much the economic, as the monetary sphere - the monetarist logic; because it does not endow the Foreign Policy and Justice and Home Affairs pillars with the minimum Community characteristics that are necessary at this political moment; because it does not provide for the minimum institutional changes that are essential before enlargement, and were the principal goal of the Amsterdam Summit; and lastly, as has already been said in this Chamber, because it was drawn up using the traditional method employed for drafting treaties - a diplomatic, intergovernmental method far removed from the citizens and even their representative parliamentary institutions.