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| Abolish EU, says Tory |
| 2003-05-10 |
| The European Union should be abolished and replaced with a "Europe of Democracies" based on free trade rather than shared sovereignty, say opponents of the European constitution being drawn up in Brussels. A group of members of the Convention on the Future of Europe, the body writing the constitution, plans to publish a minority report opposing most of the main proposals. The rebels include around a dozen politicians from eight countries including Britain, France, Sweden, Denmark and Ireland. Although the minority report stands virtually no chance of being adopted, it is a clear sign of growing concern across the EU about the planned constitution, to be published next month. The draft constitution proposed that countries should lose their veto on foreign policy, that taxes be harmonised and that the EU should be renamed the United States of Europe. There were also plans to set up a European army and a common criminal justice system. It would be funny if it wasn't true. In an interview with The Telegraph, David Heathcoat-Amory, the Tory MP who is one of the British members of the convention, said he would vote for the minority report. "We've got Left and Right united in this noble cause of creating a democratic Europe answerable to its people," he said. The minority report proposes that the Europe of Democracies would be "a treaty association of free and self-governing European states and an open economic area". |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #4 Hey Aris, we'll here how great this all is when Polish taxpayers have to pay to prop up the French welfare state...That's what this is about, friend, having other countries with better demographics and growing economies pick up the costs that the French, with there massive welfare state and terrible economy, can't hope to pay...but you'll get it...in your wallet. |
| Posted by: R. McLeod 2003-05-11 03:47:37 |
| #3 Oh, but you *need* to abolish it, and not only abolish this union but prevent any other nations from forming any similar union as well. Allow other countries to prosper on their own without you? Allow the free and peaceful union of nations, stop with "divide and conquer" tactics? Never! Oh, them lackeys of the French so eager to join the EU -- countries like Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, the Czech republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia... What? What do you say? These countries actually supported the US during the war on Iraq? Oh, well, don't let facts get in the way of your fanaticism. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2003-05-10 15:10:44 |
| #2 The European Union should be abolished and replaced with a "Europe of Democracies" based on free trade rather than shared sovereignty, say opponents of the European constitution being drawn up in Brussels. Why abolish it? Interested parties only need set the appropriate federation, and get OUT of the EU while they still can without incurring substantial pain/problems. Leave the worthless EU to the French and their lackeys. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-05-10 14:46:10 |
| #1 "We've got Left and Right united in this noble cause of creating a democratic Europe answerable to its people," he said. No taxation without REAL representation. The rebels include around a dozen politicians from eight countries including Britain, France, Sweden, Denmark and Ireland. The inclusion of France makes the report questionable. Nevertheless, one cannot announce the obvious lack of "representative Government" clothes that the EU king is wearing too much. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-05-10 08:03:46 |