The Future is a Foreign Country
March 1, 2005 by Ken
Filed under The Best of the Rest
This from a new blog, to me, Democracy.me.uk
The Future is a Foreign Country
This week sees the EU Parliament host the “Third annual conference on federalismâ€. If you were unaware there had ever been two previous such conferences then you’re not alone
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One of the ‘working papers’ issued to mark the occasion is ‘The European Union: A New Federative Project?’ Contrary to all of ‘New’ Labour’s lies, these federalists are not afraid to state the truth when they actively welcome the fact that the EU Constitution will strengthen their powers and thus move, ‘the European Union further away from a mere federative project into the direction of a federation. The main characteristics of this development are the following ones:
‘The name of the Treaty signalises a claim. No supranational organisation, let alone any merely international one, has hitherto called its charter a constitution. Up to present times this term has been reserved for states. By using it now for the European Union the Treaty has at least indicated that in many respects this Union has already state-like features, and it has established the further development of these features as a political programme for a federal state.’
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The British House of Commons, British law courts, and British civil servants are still here, but they have all become agents of the European Union implementing European law. This is no accident. By creating common standards that are implemented through national institutions, Europe can take over countries without necessarily becoming a target for hostility’
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