The EU renews its vows to citizens
Margot Wallström is Vice-President of the European Commission and states here:
The relationship between the EU and its citizens may seem a complicated affair. Judging from my own everyday experience, it is in fact very simple. The EU is there for the citizens and its aim is to respond to their needs and concerns....................
The needs of the citizens are best met through the protection of their democratic rights through their elected national parliaments.
The concerns of these same citizens, as everywhere reflected across the internet, are that these rights are being trampled upon by the Lisbon Treaty and the secretive and underhand means by which it is being implemented. Read Welt, also from Germany, a Labour Europhile, an Irish academic, a Finnish lawyer and countless others.
Ms Wallström, change the second sentence of the passage quoted above to the following and you will have an exact statement of what the majority of the 400 million plus people of the EU think of your corrupt organisation:
The EU is there to control and bleed its citizens regardless of their needs and concerns or former democratic rights.
posted by Martin at 1:11 PM
1 Comments:
I would just like to distance myself from that a little, as the Labour europhile you quoted! I don't think my rights are being trampled upon by the Lisbon Treaty any more than they are being trampled on by national governments. Plus the Lisbon Treaty actually gives European citizens more rights, with the legal incorportation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
However it does take some remarkable skill for the EU to have annoyed even me, someone who should be one of their strongest supporters, with the games they are playing with the ratification process.
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