EU Leaders Fiddle while Europe Burns

By Charles E. Boyle | June 17, 2005

June 18, 2005 at 1:59 am

Charles Taylor says:

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This is the most sensible article that I have ever seen concerning the E.U. I was told many years ago that itwould be the 4th Reich and it is slowly becoming so, but strangely because of the French attitude rather than the German one.
The countries of the EU are democracies and the people expect to be treated as such so do not take kindly to being told, day after day, what to do and how to do it by unelected mandarins in ivory towers.

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June 23, 2005 at 3:05 am

ROZ mandelcorn says:

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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.

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