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In an interview with Bild am Sonntag newspaper Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European commission, has said. the EU constitution in its current form will not come into effect. “We should not fool ourselves. It’s important now to maintain its values, its principles and its substance. Above all, we have to improve the decision-making mechanism, and we need to do that as quickly as possible.”

I could I suppose applaud Barroso for making this statement after all I have been against this leap forward of EU integration since the beginning, but I have a nasty feeling that Barroso is saying something else entirely. His recognising that the actually document will not come into force, is not much to crow about, as he wants to maintain “its values, its principles and its substance” and to as “quickly as possible” “improve the decision-making mechanism” There is only one way they know how to improve the decision making mechanism within the EU and that it to remove ability of a member state to stand against a decision which it feels goes against its interests, this can only be done by removing the power of the veto and by extending the requirement for Qualified Majority Voting (QMV).

Scraping the Constitution will effectively remove the necessity for any referendum to be called on the contents of the document but will allow the leaders to institute its values, its principles and its substance by the back door.

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