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Jack Straw is going on the offensive, and will be issuing a raft of fact sheets explaining the background to the EU constitution.

A new document will be released each day this week Eureferendum has analysed yesterday’s offering.

The first “myth”, published yesterday, is stated in terms that: “Britain would lose control over foreign policy under the constitutional treaty.”

In fact, no one at all knowledgeable about the EU treaties would even begin to argue that Britain would lose control of foreign policy under the constitution. The point is, as is often the case in the incremental development of policy which typifies the EU, that we would lose even more control than we have already – albeit that some residual powers would remain.

Straw says ‘In the public debate over the European Treaty, we will be making the patriotic case for a strong British role in the European Union”.

So it is now patriotic to give away British governments powers to a supra national unelected unaccountable organisation well that is one view another would be that it is in fact treason to do such a thing.

“And we will make clear to the British public how the constitution gives us our kind of Europe, based firmly on the power and legitimacy of the nations of Europe. “We will firmly be taking on the mythology of the eurosceptics which distort so much of the European Union.”

Yes and It gives the French their kind of Europe

Perhaps Straw will be explaining exactly how the Constitution
which reverses the power in the present treaties,
sets the EU up as a power in its own right
makes its Constituion and its laws superior to our laws,
compels us to facilitate the achievement of the Union’s tasks and refrain from any measure which could jeopardise the attainment of the objectives set out in the Constitution.”
“would deprive the Member States of most of their present treaty-making powers,”
gives the EU “The power to promote and coordinate the economic and employment policies of the Member States,”
“to define and implement a common foreign and security policy, including the progressive framing of a common defence policy.”
the power to oversee “industry; protection and improvement of human health; education, vocational training, youth and sport; culture, and civil protection.”
Insists that “Member States shall actively and unreservedly support the Union’s common foreign and security policy in a spirit of loyalty and mutual solidarity and shall comply with the acts adopted by the Union in this area.
They shall refrain from action contrary to the Union’s interests or likely to impair its effectiveness.”
The Union Foreign Minister “shall conduct political dialogue on the Union’s behalf and shall express the Union’s position in international organisations and at international conferences”
requires all Member States to “make civilian and military capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy …”
and to “undertake progressively to improve their military capabilities.”
insists that “The currency of the Union shall be the euro.”

The Constitution represents a further stage in the assault on the Nation States of Europe and the national democracy that underpins them, by the powerful political, economic, bureaucratic and ideological elites that for decades have been pushing the EU integration project. (Anthony Coughlan)