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One Europhile Talking to Himself I wonder why?

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“Dear Minister for Europe. Dear Forum Monitors. Dear Webmasters. Saturday, 24th July 2004.

This Discussion-Forum is an excellent media-facility for ‘learned and learning’ information-exchange on especially the proposed ‘European Constitution Treaty’ democratically-open contents for debate, texts for perfectioning, and ideals for reaching insights into all valid implications for the United Kingdom: at a truer heart of the European Union into its 21st Century widening to cover the whole of our ‘European Home’ of peace and plenty for all of our domiciliaries - contributing in times past/present/future to a better spread of the ‘common good’. Last-mentioned is not in the gift of hate-mongering intolerance or EU-scepticisms.

Therefore let the debate begin: How to make ‘The EU’ work best to achieve its/our ‘constitutional ideals’!

It is relatively easy to take part by registering in this discussion forum - even ‘MASTUCIT’ managed here.

I’m also surprised that we are not getting an explosion of contributions in the ‘Faith and Foreign Policy’ forum. It might surely be taken over by all citizen-groups of vested interests, experience and expertise (in humanitarian tasks and humanist rights - demonstrating faith, hope, charity, and secular solutions).

For contributions spreading reflective insights, understanding and reality-truth of facts-not-fictions, these discussion-fora are one means of relevant trust to get an affirmative referended return consensus in our UK Referendum on accepting the ‘EU Constitution’. Surely there’s no need and payback in using tools of calumny and detraction, recovered from biased data-bases of political bigotry (cum EU-sceptic poison).

Stefan Peter, Mature Student-Citizen, UK and EU.”

Just returned from a short break and am trying to catch up with everthing I came across this and wish I had said it first.
The Road to Euro Serfdom:

“In an interview, Jean-Pierre Raffarin is giving his take on the constitution.

For the first time, Europe has a shared Constitution. This pact is the point of no-return. Europe is becoming an irreversible project, irrevocable after the ratification of this treaty. It is a new era for Europe, a new geography, a new history.

We often accuse the EU of wanting to be a totalitarian state when it grows up, but I didn’t expect them to start changing history so soon. What changes will be made to the legacy of Mrs T, I wonder. In addition, those that like irrevocable, the treaty is for you. Those that believe that a changing world makes permanence dangerous, oh you are so backward.

Which parts of the text seem the most important to you?

I think that there are two fundamental new perspectives. First of all, it is a Constitution, a common law that is binding on all of us. From Tocqueville to Raymond Aron, the French have always wanted the law to be a source of liberty.

My understanding of the phrase common law is of course different. Only a Frenchman can regard the law as the source of liberty. I consider liberty as a natural state, with the purpose of the law being to uphold that liberty. As EU law is mostly concerned with restricting freedom, the exisitence of a European Union Constitution as a source of liberty is a twisted notion indeed.”