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Thread ID: 9487 | Posts: 8 | Started: 2003-09-03
2003-09-03 07:37 | User Profile
EU(EEC) Constitution in Works! Marxist NWO being built in Europe!
** 02.09.2003
Small EU Countries Aim to Revamp Constitution Small countries fear their interests will be trampled by the new EU constitution. Small countries fear their interests will be trampled by the new EU constitution.
Hoping to avert a European Union dominated by larger nations, representatives from 15 mostly smaller current and future EU members have met in Prague to discuss changes to a draft European constitution.
A 105-member convention this spring, led by former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, unveiled a blueprint constitution that aims to streamline the EUââ¬â¢s institutions and make it capable of functioning when the bloc expands from 15 to 25 members next year.
Although the constitution would consolidate various EU treaties and likely make the bloc more transparent and governable, it has unsettled smaller countries that fear their interests could be swept aside in the name of efficiency. Meeting in Prague on Monday, officials from 15 nations agreed to adopt a common negotiating position before an intergovernmental conference in October that will hammer out the final shape of the European Constitution.
Officials from Slovakia, Hungary, Greece, Finland, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ireland, Portugal, Slovenia and the Czech Republic attended the meeting, amounting to the strongest challenge so far to the EUââ¬â¢s larger countries and their alleged intentions to consolidate the blocââ¬â¢s power.
ââ¬ÅThere is a certain agreement, so it can be expected that in these areas, I don't want to say there will be common proposals, but certainly some synergy during the intergovernmental conference,ââ¬Â Czech Deputy Foreign Minister Jan Kohout told Reuters after the summit.
Poland, with around 40 million citizens by far the largest candidate country, also attended the ââ¬ÅDwarf Summitââ¬Â in Prague, but smaller current EU members the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg did not.
ââ¬ÅOne country, one commissionerââ¬Â
Kohout said the representatives accepted 90 to 95 percent of the proposed constitution and did not want to derail the draft, but that some changes were necessary. He said they had agreed that each EU country should retain its own representative at the European Commission.
As it now stands, the new constitution would limit the size of the Commission, the body which proposes laws and enforces common EU policies, to 15 executive members. Presently, each country is guaranteed one commissioner and larger nations have two. The smaller nations want to see each member guaranteed a commissioner to protect their national interests in Brussels.
ââ¬ÅThe overwhelming majority are for the principle of ââ¬Ëone country, one commissionerââ¬â¢,ââ¬Â Kohout said.
Some smaller countries also want the EU to keep its system of a rotating presidency instead of electing a permanent chairman and they also want to ditch the proposed voting system, under which decisions would be taken by a majority of countries representing at least 60 percent of the EU's population.
ââ¬ÅMany states joining on May 1, 2004 have only been sovereign since the political changes in 1989. For some of them it is difficult to once again subordinate themselves to something larger,ââ¬Â an unnamed official representing the EU in Prague told the German news agency DPA.
Big four against changes
Politicians from Europeââ¬â¢s biggest four nations ââ¬â Germany, France, Britain and Italy ââ¬â have said trying to drastically revamp the draft constitution could have the disastrous effect of derailing the whole project.
ââ¬ÅThe draft is a great and reasonable compromise between large and small states,ââ¬Â said German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer on a trip to Prague last month.
While expressing understanding for the small countriesââ¬â¢ desire to protect their interests, Fischer warned against ââ¬Åopening up the package,ââ¬Â saying doing so could create a crisis in within the EU.
The EU hopes to finish negotiations on the constitution before the next election of the European Parliament in June.
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Send Print en:more_dw Fischer Says Hands Off EU Constitution German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer warns other European countries not to re-negotiate the EU draft constitution. Should they attempt to do so, Germany would follow suit, bringing their own grievances to the table. (July 24, 2003)
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European Convention Concludes Work With agreements to maintain veto rights on issues dealing with immigration, labor markets, cultural trade and foreign policy, the European Convention completed its historic work of drafting a constitution on Thursday. (July 10, 2003)
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Delegates See David vs. Goliath Struggle at EU Convention The latest draft constitution for the European Union has created a furor, as some delegates to the Convention on the Future of Europe fear it will consolidate power with the EUââ¬â¢s six biggest nations. (May 29, 2003)
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Death to the EU! :gun: :gun:
2003-09-03 08:57 | User Profile
In a fit of masochism I read the whole thing as it stands a couple of months back. I hope to comment on the individual sections and their implications for nationalists some time soon. Anyway the name changes the European project has undergone say it all really:
1952: European Coal and Steel community 1958: European Ecomonic Community 1965: European Community 1993: European Union Proposed in an earlier draft of the constitution but rejected: United States of Europe
The sanctions imposed against Austria for electing a nationalist coalition are only a small taste of what is to come. There doesnââ¬â¢t appear to be any way out. Only Ireland allowed it citizens a referendum on the last EU treaty and when it was rejected they just ran exactly the same referendum again next year (with massive funding thrown behind the campaign). Sooner or later the EU is going to do away with the whole tiresome notion of stateââ¬â¢s rights.
2003-09-29 13:55 | User Profile
[QUOTE=na Gaeil is gile]In a fit of masochism I read the whole thing as it stands a couple of months back.
Could you then tell me if there is any reference in it to race or racism? I was wondering as the present Constitution of the Netherlands (that's where I live) explicitly forbids any discrimination based on race.
2003-09-29 14:58 | User Profile
Welcome Siegfried Aurelius, I have reproduced the only explicit references to race/racism/'xenophobia' below. A copy of the draft constitution may be found [URL=http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/jul/cv00850.en03.pdf]here[/url].
[QUOTE] TITLE III: EQUALITY Article II-20: Equality before the law Everyone is equal before the law. Article II-21: Non-discrimination 1. Any discrimination based on any ground such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation shall be prohibited. 2. Within the scope of application of the Constitution and without prejudice to any of its specific provisions, any discrimination on grounds of nationality shall be prohibited. ... [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE] CHAPTER IV AREA OF FREEDOM, SECURITY AND JUSTICE SECTION 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS Article III-158 ... 2. It shall ensure the absence of internal border controls for persons and shall frame a common policy on asylum, immigration and external border control, based on solidarity between Member States, which is fair towards third-country nationals. For the purpose of this chapter, stateless persons shall be treated as third-country nationals. 3. The Union shall endeavour to ensure a high level of security by measures to prevent and combat crime, racism and xenophobia, and measures for coordination and cooperation between police and judicial authorities and other competent authorities, as well as by the mutual recognition of judgments in criminal matters and, if necessary, the approximation of criminal laws. ... [/QUOTE]
All in all not much considering the laws that already on the books in individual member states.
2003-09-29 18:17 | User Profile
Thanks, na Gaeil is gile.
2003-10-02 01:09 | User Profile
Yo yo YO....Detective Bobby Simone inna house, gittin' all [I]swole [/I] on da hizzaters, dawg!
2003-10-02 04:10 | User Profile
The US Constitution granted limited powers to the federal government cerntered around state vs. state relations. The Bill of Rights explicitly protected a number of broad rights. The US Constitution was created to govern a free people.
The EU Constitution, on the other hand, requires all sorts of social services and dictates sexual preferences for women. In Europe, "free" is a word that only works in sentences like "The dog is free of ticks."
A socialist state with open boarders cannot exist for long without becoming a horrible place to live.
2003-10-02 07:06 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker]The EU Constitution, on the other hand, requires all sorts of social services[/QUOTE] As a National Socialist, I would see a strong centralistic state that provides quality social services to its citizenry as an excellent solution, provided we are talking about a racially/nationally homogeneous country. It also has to be a country where people have a reasonable work ethic, and where parasitism is frowned upon (that's why NS worked so well in 1930s Germany, as predicted by Spengler in 'Prussianism and Socialism'). The socialist element of NS is extremely important because it brings about an unheard of degree of social cohesion in a homogeneous country. It's the exact opposite of class warfare. In other words, I am more than happy to pay for social security, medicare etc. if I know that the contributions will benefit my racial kinsmen who will one day reciprocate. I am not happy at all to contribute to these funds in the current situation where they represent racial redistribution of wealth and where one can envision the future as a 'brown hand pulling the white plug' scenario once 'minorities' become a majority.