Tiscali Europe – Home: “An EU Foreign Minister ‘Lowest common denominator’ or ‘all to play for’” Many feel that the most innovative and radical part of the European Constitutional Treaty is the creation of the position of Foreign Minister of Europe, a position that has already been assigned to Javier Solana, the current High Representative [...]
Reading the Treaties
March 30, 2007 By Leave a Comment
The EU is not a defence alliance in fact this is quite clear as Article 17 of the treaty states the EU "shall not prejudice the specific character of the security and defence policy" of a member state. But articles 11 and 16 also state that EU countries "shall refrain from any action which is [...]
Solana the Face of EU
December 13, 2006 By Leave a Comment
From China’s Peoples Daily on Line It is not a surprise that Javier Solana, the foreign policy chief of the European Union (EU), has been named the winner of the 2007 Charlemagne Prize. EU’s diplomacy in the past year became the focus of global attention at certain points. Solana has become the face of the [...]
The new EU treaty putting British sovereignty at risk
August 17, 2006 By
Hat tip to Tommy English for the link to this essay …Our next general election should be about much more than schools and hospitals. Britain’s sovereignty is at stake. And although the Government wants to pull the wool over our eyes, we need an elevated debate on Europe… Brian Durrant – Other articles Mon 17 [...]
EU Maritime Policy
July 17, 2006 By
Why did the British need the EU Constitution to explain where the Falkland Islands stood as regards THEIR overseas territories. Did ‘todays’ people not understand why we went to war, or so many of our young people lost their lives in so doing? Perhaps this re-inforces my reasoning re the EU’s Green Consultation Paper COM [...]
A Total Lack of Mandate
May 13, 2006 By Leave a Comment
I raised the question of Solana’s status in a written question to the Council last October. They are supposed to reply within six weeks to all questions, but we MEPs have no sanctions available if they don’t. As you can see from the attached file, the answer was answered in April and finally reached me on [...]
To destroy the constitution is an act of treason
July 19, 2005 By Leave a Comment
An article by Anne Palmer Although two Countries (France and Holland) have given a resounding NO to a Constitution for the European Union, and the peoples voices were loud and clear in a referendum, it is as if everyone in the Commission and the European Council were deaf because the work to implement certain Articles [...]
The Budget is a Smokescreen
June 13, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Perhaps Blogs are having an effect, EU Referendum has made the point several times that the Budget row is a get up to direct the pundits away fro the real issues. Today the Telegraph picks up on the story “So dazzled are commentators by President Chirac’s outrageous demands that they have taken their eyes off [...]
Ignoring the voters is what the EU does best
May 31, 2005 By Leave a Comment
I tend to agree with the argument that the ratification exercise should continue, in the event that they decide to shelve the document, there should be an immediate halt to the anticipatory introduction of the proposals in the Constitution. It would seem to be totally undemocratic to proceed with these proposals if the treaty giving [...]
The three reasons for Europe
May 19, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Eurealist :: Main Page: “The three reasons for Europe by Eurealist on May 19, 2005 10:20AM (BST) Give Europe more weight in the world The three reasons for Europe By Javier Solana Argues for an increase in military capabilities The three reasons for Europe by Eurealist on May 19, 2005 10:20AM (BST) Give Europe more [...]
Javier Solana on Democracy
March 14, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Javier Solana on Democracy “To succeed, democratic movements have to be home-grown and adapted to local conditions. Each society must find its own path and move forward at its own pace.†So says the EU foreign Minister designate. Setting aside the EU`s major conflict with the USA attempts to bring democracy to parts of the [...]
Towards Tyranny!
January 5, 2005 By Leave a Comment
A government in which a single ruler is vested with absolute power. The office, authority, or jurisdiction of an absolute ruler That is the plan, look at the convention proceedings and the resulting totally non-democratic, zero-accountability constitution and there can be no other possible conclusion. I do not know where that came from but if [...]
Just who is guiding Javier Solana?
November 27, 2004 By Leave a Comment
Has anyone else noticed that Javier Solana has been in the news a lot this week; was what I was going to write, but Jonathan Lockhart has beaten me to it. Jonathan Lockhart’s Notebook: “Just who is guiding Javier Solana? Javier Solana has been in the news a lot recently. Mr Solana is the European [...]
Solana Denies BBC Report
November 25, 2004 By Leave a Comment
Solana Denies BBC Report Euobserver reports that The EU Foreign Minister supposedly in waiting for us all to vote “Yes†but expect him to take on the title anyway, Javier Solana told the BBC that that he had the meeting some months ago with the EU proscribed terrorist organisation Hamas. But a Statement by the [...]
