Eurocrats Are Circling Their Wagons
From the desk of Elaib Harvey on Tue, 2006-05-09 20:52
Tomorrow the Commission launches its contribution to the ‘Future of Europe’ debate or how we learnt to stop worrying and love the Constitution. A friend has seen the documents and sent me the following precis,
I – CONTENTS
1) Communautarisation of the Cooperation Policy for police and justice (3rd pillar) (initiative of the single Commission and vote by a qualified majority)
2) Common purchase of weapons for the “European army”, which is obviously a prelude to the communitarisation of the Defence policy and therefore of the Foreign Policy.
3) Simplified access to the documents of the Union
4) The revival of a common policy of immigration on the basis of the Amsterdam Treaty
5) The Commission also prepares a list of all “barriers” which remain to be suppressed in order to make the single internal market of the Union.(That’ll be tax harmonisation to you and me).
II - STRATEGY
This “plan” of reanimation would take place in two stages:
1) In 2007, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the European Community, the European governments will make a “Political Statement” on the model of the Messina Statement of 1955, in which Italy, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Luxemburg and Germany had announced the creation of the European Community.
In this new Statement, Member States would recall what are the fundamental goals of the Union and would require themselves to respect them. (Which looks very much like the “principle of loyal cooperation” enshrined in the Constitution)
2) On the basis of this statement, also in 2007, States would begin work of “grooming” the rejected constitutional treaty. The new legal bases of the Union would be therefore ready in 2008.
Brussels considers that referendum is not the best way of ratification “because the experience shows, as it was the case in France, that numerous citizens taking part in the referendum do not vote on the subject but on the Government.”
Brussels considers that
Submitted by McMad on Wed, 2006-05-10 15:37.
Brussels considers that referendum is not the best way of ratification because the experience shows, as it was the case in France, that
numerous citizens taking part in the referendum do not vote on the
subject but on the Government.
How convenient, when the vote is not to eurocrats liking, they simply declare that people are voting in a "wrong way"! Why not scrap the voting proces alltogether, people might always vote "for the wrong reasons" or "the wrong way". Democracy a la EU..
This is starting to look more and more nightmarish.
constitution
Submitted by Pat Patterson on Wed, 2006-05-10 00:25.
Why doesn't the EU start by adopting something simpler, like say, the Magna Carta? Then after a few centuries maybe the circumstances might arise where a constitution printed on paper, as opposed to one written on parchment, could be approved.
fools
Submitted by George2 on Tue, 2006-05-09 23:41.
The problem of the Eurocrats is the following: 'you can fool some people some of the times, but you can't fool all of them all of the times'.
People want to live: work, go shopping, cook and eat a meal, play, have fun etc etc. What have the Eurocrats to do with all this: nothing. Why?: because they are not listening. They dream up all their fantasies and try to put them in laws. The people of Europe, like all other people, have their feet on the ground. They are not fooled by some fantasies.
So what is the solution according to the Eurocrats? Just delete the people and keep the local fantasts: the politicians.
What is reality?: thinking and behavioral patterns (= cultures) are way too different to be poured in one common constitution. We have the UN with a wildely useless piece of constitution. So why do we need a sub-UN? The only some what common 'thing' European countries have, is business (economics). This is where a union makes sense.
I think it is about time that Eurocrats quit dreaming up jobs for themselves and dreaming up laws that the people have to pay them. Ofcourse they don't want referenda: time after time they are and will be getting the same result: NO.
This means: bye bye good paying job, bye bye fantasising and dreaming up nice little rules, bye bye expensive dinners, perks and lots of media attention. But most of all, a NO is a denial of their egos; they are nobody special being cut down by nobodies like you and me. Nobodies who are not supposed to have their own ideas; nobodies enlightened not by fantasies but by daily reality.