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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Of course this was a Joined inititive of ATTAC in Belgium as you can see with the flaggs and banners....
At the Malmo meetings and other was decided to act upon the EU traities .
Attac organised this small and Nice event.
you brought the fight to the heart of the EU empire. I hope it inspires people in other EU countries to stand up for their rights and to win the right to have their own referendums on EU treaties which have been used to covertly seize power from the national level and hand it over to the political elite in brussells.
Hi:
Today, October 24, 2008, Sarkozy told the world that what is needed is a "new global governance." Since this global governance would depend upon a compliant and corporate EU, North American Union and Pan Asian Union, I'm not sure how he could claim this without assurances that the Lisbon Treaty will, in fact, be ratified, with or without Ireland's permission.
Also, what, as a practical matter, can the average Brit do to put this ugly treaty business to sleep forever?
Thanks.
To deny Europe is to condemn us all to insignificance, fine, whatever your views, but the reality is that for Europe, the critical size to exert influence in the world is clearly no longer at a Member Sate level but at European level. What weight does the voice of Belgium have or most of the other EU MS during large international trade negotiations with China; or discussions on air traffic control with the United States; or take the recent response to the current economic crisis (which reminds me, where would Ireland be if it had not received such massive support from the EU coffers... You can downplay it all you like). There is as such a clear need for Europe to have a common front, and a European Constitution would give Europe the legal basis to support this common front, and we already have one by the way, it is just the EU does not say so. The treaties are no different to a Constitutional Chater (ECJ ruling 1986). Define it more clearly if need be, restrict it where it needs to be restricted or amend it in accordance with what we need, but don't kill it. First point is the fact that Europe is incapable of political union considerably weakenes us. Second, despite having twenty seven Member States with a combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) higher than the United States, Europe is far from having any equivalent political weight in international trade. Third, even with Europe being the biggest financial donor and lender in the world, it is still denied representation and influence in international finance institutions in favour of the US, and soon... China.
There is however at the same time a general agreement that the EU needs to be made more efficient and more effective and democratic, but with fears of the EU becoming too powerful. Either you want a Europe or you don't. As people can clearly recognize between which aspects would give rise to a European Super State (the EU already signs treaties by the way), and those aspects that are necessary to make Europe more effective, the debate needs to be separated between a political and an institutional one... Should the political debate not be resolved, it should not prevent an improved and more effective EU. If you condemn the EU, you would have to reinvent it later...
Direct elections in Europe are possible.
Please notice the Link I found on an Austrian Website: www.we-change-europe.eu
Do you know the alternative to vote Europe-wide?
Best Regards
Bea
David Quinn, former editor of The Irish Catholic and now a columist for the Irish Independent, sounds off on Declan Ganley as a 'Maverick who terrifies Europe', in the current issue of the new conservative British publication, Standpoint. How ungracious of him not to mention the giveaway paper Alive, edited by a Dominican priest in Tallaght, which has been a formidable critic of EU structures and agendas for several years before Ganley's dramatic appearance on the Irish anti-Lisbon scene. Is he peeved that The Irish Catholic sells less than 25,000 copies per issue, while more than 250,000 copies of Alive are brought home from churches every month?
Link: http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/maverick-who-terrifies-e...eland
I saw that we can vote at the We Change Europe-Website for two European topics.
Its a nice votingtool, easy. But the Treaty of Lisbon isn't ratified?