Skybird
10-30-07, 05:30 PM
Valery Giscard d'estaing has been one of the high profile figures behind the constitution draft, but also has at times turned into one of the most important critics of today's EU, together with Helmut Schnmidt, who - despite also having been one of the key persons behind the EU project - also is "bitterböse" about the EU of today.
I just wonder why Giscard d'estaing was willing to saacrifice his name for this deeply rotten project.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7069181.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3109877.ece
The treaty differs from the abandoned constitution in "approach rather than content", says former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. (...)
Mr Giscard d'Estaing points out that the UK will not be bound by the treaty's rules on human rights and judicial harmonisation, and would retain the right to "duck in and out of the system as it pleases". British Euro-sceptics want the government to hold a referendum on the treaty, arguing it is no different to the constitution. (...)
The authors of the new treaty, he says, have taken the original draft constitution and "blown it apart into separate elements".
They have then "re-attached them, one by one, to existing treaties". Changes to the original constitution - such as jettisoning references to a European flag and anthem - were made to "head off any threat of referenda", Mr Giscard d'Estaing says. (...) He describes the treaty as "a catalogue of amendments" that is impenetrable for the public.
Writing in The Independent, M. Giscard D'Estaing said: "The proposed institutional reforms, the only ones which mattered to the drafting convention, are all to be found in the Treaty of Lisbon. They have merely been ordered differently and split up between previous treaties."
And specifically about Britain:
He said: "The Charter of Fundamental Rights, an improved and updated version of the charter of human rights, has been withdrawn from the draft treaty and made into a separate text to which Britain will not be bound.
"In the area of judicial harmonisation and co- operation, Great Britain will have the right to duck in and out of the system as it pleases.
"Having already weakened all attempts at further European integration, such as by refusing the title of Minister for Foreign Affairs of the European Union, Britain has been allowed to be the odd man out whenever it feels like it." (...)
Mark Francois, the shadow Europe minister, said: "This admission really lets the cat out of the bag about the need for a referendum.
The man who chaired the body which drafted the original EU constitution has now confessed that its revived version, the so-called Reform Treaty, was deliberately drafted to try to avoid the people of Europe having their say on it. The French people were allowed a vote in 2005 as were the Dutch, and the Irish will now get a vote on the revived version – so why can't the British people have their say too?"
The ammount of criminal energy of European politicians to reject Europeans the right to democratically vote for or against such a massive, far-reaching, basic substantial chnage of the rules that so far have regulated european neighbourhood easily rivals the ambitions to maintain power like you find them in the various faces of organized crime like the mafia. It is the same kind of perfidious mindtricks, word-turnings, deceptions and betrayals. Spit.
I just wonder why Giscard d'estaing was willing to saacrifice his name for this deeply rotten project.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7069181.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article3109877.ece
The treaty differs from the abandoned constitution in "approach rather than content", says former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. (...)
Mr Giscard d'Estaing points out that the UK will not be bound by the treaty's rules on human rights and judicial harmonisation, and would retain the right to "duck in and out of the system as it pleases". British Euro-sceptics want the government to hold a referendum on the treaty, arguing it is no different to the constitution. (...)
The authors of the new treaty, he says, have taken the original draft constitution and "blown it apart into separate elements".
They have then "re-attached them, one by one, to existing treaties". Changes to the original constitution - such as jettisoning references to a European flag and anthem - were made to "head off any threat of referenda", Mr Giscard d'Estaing says. (...) He describes the treaty as "a catalogue of amendments" that is impenetrable for the public.
Writing in The Independent, M. Giscard D'Estaing said: "The proposed institutional reforms, the only ones which mattered to the drafting convention, are all to be found in the Treaty of Lisbon. They have merely been ordered differently and split up between previous treaties."
And specifically about Britain:
He said: "The Charter of Fundamental Rights, an improved and updated version of the charter of human rights, has been withdrawn from the draft treaty and made into a separate text to which Britain will not be bound.
"In the area of judicial harmonisation and co- operation, Great Britain will have the right to duck in and out of the system as it pleases.
"Having already weakened all attempts at further European integration, such as by refusing the title of Minister for Foreign Affairs of the European Union, Britain has been allowed to be the odd man out whenever it feels like it." (...)
Mark Francois, the shadow Europe minister, said: "This admission really lets the cat out of the bag about the need for a referendum.
The man who chaired the body which drafted the original EU constitution has now confessed that its revived version, the so-called Reform Treaty, was deliberately drafted to try to avoid the people of Europe having their say on it. The French people were allowed a vote in 2005 as were the Dutch, and the Irish will now get a vote on the revived version – so why can't the British people have their say too?"
The ammount of criminal energy of European politicians to reject Europeans the right to democratically vote for or against such a massive, far-reaching, basic substantial chnage of the rules that so far have regulated european neighbourhood easily rivals the ambitions to maintain power like you find them in the various faces of organized crime like the mafia. It is the same kind of perfidious mindtricks, word-turnings, deceptions and betrayals. Spit.