EU Leaders Fiddle while Europe Burns
International News • June 17, 2005
One would have thought that the crisis in the European Union, provoked when French and Dutch voters rejected the proposed EU Constitution, might have caused a bit of soul-searching and ...
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Subject: EU constitution
Posted On: June 23, 2005, 3:05 am CDT
Posted By: ROZ mandelcorn
Comment:
the irony of all this talk about the "failure"
of the EU constitution (to pass in france
& the netherlands) is that MOST of the EU
constitution is ALREADY contained in a long
series of treaties signed by the EU members.
the EU constitution basically just codified
those EXISTING treaties into another
legal document which actually aggregates the
treaties into a single document.
it's too bad the media hasn't actually taken a closer look at all the documents so they
would understand this.
that said, there is a great fear amongst
citizens that their countries will lose
their sovereignty.
the writer of the ins. journal article
also is not knowledgable about the
huge subsidies the us gives to multinational agribusiness. whereas in europe most
farmers are still holding family properties.
and i think we, in the usa, would all be
a lot better off to follow the european
model to disallow companies from having
the undue influence they have on legislative
matters in the us.
the us was born of the people, for the people, by the people...not corporations.
Subject: EU constitution
of the EU constitution (to pass in france
& the netherlands) is that MOST of the EU
constitution is ALREADY contained in a long
series of treaties signed by the EU members.
the EU constitution basically just codified
those EXISTING treaties into another
legal document which actually aggregates the
treaties into a single document.
it's too bad the media hasn't actually taken a closer look at all the documents so they
would understand this.
that said, there is a great fear amongst
citizens that their countries will lose
their sovereignty.
the writer of the ins. journal article
also is not knowledgable about the
huge subsidies the us gives to multinational agribusiness. whereas in europe most
farmers are still holding family properties.
and i think we, in the usa, would all be
a lot better off to follow the european
model to disallow companies from having
the undue influence they have on legislative
matters in the us.
the us was born of the people, for the people, by the people...not corporations.