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Posted by Anonymous to swanage view
Thursday, June 02, 2005
EU Constitution?
talking about news from Swanage only on this site? Surely the New EU constitution is of immediate interest? for it will undoubtedly affect us all. Though the way things are going, it looks to be a dead duck anyway.How do local folk see the EU? in favour or not? I must admit to being in favour, if for no other reason it has been instrumental in preventing another European tribal war. For previously they came along every twenty years or so.Dancing Ledge
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Posted by Anonymous to swanage view at 6/1/2005 03:31:27 PM
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Having just visited the new Baltic member states I felt glad to have them on board. I have not read the full constitution but there is a reader friendly one at: http://www.euabc.com/?page_id=207
My argument is for a level playing field, including the Euro, so everyone competes by the effectiveness and efficiency by which they meet market demands. You can only get rid of protectionism and currency rigging and bad working practices if all member states are involved. So the more the merrier. I don’t have the deep-seated fear of the E.U. which many people display. I aspire to being able to look upon the French Alps, Estonian woodland or a Croatian beach as part of my own country. I look forward to being able to freely buy goods and services from any country using the Euros in my pocket. I believe many of the problems of demands for regional independence can be sorted by allowing breakaways to become members of the united states of Europe. The Constitution seems to me to be leading in that direction.
It incensed me today to hear Michael Howard calling upon EU leaders to take this opportunity to ditch the constitution and get a less radical (more to his liking) one. How many more are we going to try out? These are basic human rights we are talking about, agreed after weeks of negotiation! This will only work with loads of goodwill and concession all around. It doesn’t stop us drinking beer in pints, driving on the left, or eating mint sauce with lamb. We also have the advantage of having the USA as a role model as to what is good and what is bad as a result of a written constitution, and we can adopt accordingly.
I see the Government has managed to prevent the EU from imposing the working hours directive on us.
Shame on them! Is it not about time the British worked reasonable hours.instead of the institutionalised long hours that is the norm in this country.
That,it seems to me, is bowing to the big boys of business, who want to keep their workers under their feet?
Why is it? that a rich oil producing Country like Britain, has to make their workers work the longest hours of any country in Europe?
Other nations with far less resources than ours, can work a decent length of day, and live quite reasonably, without spending their whole life at work?
Dancing Ledge.
The sad fact is that the nation state has been a disaster for Europe. When the great feudal empires broke up it looked like a good idea to chop up Europe into independent states but all they have done is scrapped with each other and bumped of anybody who didn't fit into the simple formula of a nation and a state to put it in. Its hard to comprehend why its a problem from an English perspective I have to admit but after a century of war and ethnic cleansing the results are there for all to see.
Before 1914 you could go wherever you wanted without all the nonsense about passports and visas we have today. Passports used to contain the statement that HM govt requests and demands that the bearer go without let or hinderance but nowadays the let and hinderance comes from the employees of Her Majesty.
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