Franco/British actions MUST now protect their own citizens!
The joint efforts of Britain and France, which impressively succeeded in obtaining a UN Security Council resolution against Colonel Gadaffii last night, must now be continued to address the democratic rights of their own countries' citizens which seem likely to be completely expunged in the EU Council next week.
A thoroughly despicable and shabby piece of trickery was placed before Britain's Parliament this week, as I reported here, and will return again next Wednesday. It is beyond all conscience that an EU Treaty amendment requiring unanimity could be forced through without any attempt, from either Britain or France, to redress the democratic deficit which has swung so far in favour of the non-democratic eurocrats of the EU against the historic and hard won democratic rights of both the peoples of Britain and of France.
I have been living in the South-West of France for several years and I am now aware that there is little difference in the fundamental beliefs between the people amongst whom I now live and those in my own place of birth in Devonshire in the South-West of England.
It is therefore particularly abhorrent that President Sarkozy should have placed himself alongside Chancellor Merkel in pushing for these changes which will shift the economic governance of the now fully non-democratic EU firmly to the East of our Continent.
Ireland is being particularly victimised in these matters, as the Prime Minister of Luxemburg has pointedly made clear in his use of the term "torture". More distressingly given the deteriorating economic situation in Greece, Portugal and other peripheral ex-nations of the EU, the entire process is, in any presently foreseeable circumstance, inevitably doomed to failure.
Events in the Far East, Middle-East and nearby Mediterranean are driving the necessity for a complete re-appraisal of political alliances and imperatives. This is not the moment to seal a non-democratic Federal Europe! Cameron must now convince Sarkozy of that fact and thereafter combine their efforts to restore proper democracy to the peoples of their two formidable nations!
A thoroughly despicable and shabby piece of trickery was placed before Britain's Parliament this week, as I reported here, and will return again next Wednesday. It is beyond all conscience that an EU Treaty amendment requiring unanimity could be forced through without any attempt, from either Britain or France, to redress the democratic deficit which has swung so far in favour of the non-democratic eurocrats of the EU against the historic and hard won democratic rights of both the peoples of Britain and of France.
I have been living in the South-West of France for several years and I am now aware that there is little difference in the fundamental beliefs between the people amongst whom I now live and those in my own place of birth in Devonshire in the South-West of England.
It is therefore particularly abhorrent that President Sarkozy should have placed himself alongside Chancellor Merkel in pushing for these changes which will shift the economic governance of the now fully non-democratic EU firmly to the East of our Continent.
Ireland is being particularly victimised in these matters, as the Prime Minister of Luxemburg has pointedly made clear in his use of the term "torture". More distressingly given the deteriorating economic situation in Greece, Portugal and other peripheral ex-nations of the EU, the entire process is, in any presently foreseeable circumstance, inevitably doomed to failure.
Events in the Far East, Middle-East and nearby Mediterranean are driving the necessity for a complete re-appraisal of political alliances and imperatives. This is not the moment to seal a non-democratic Federal Europe! Cameron must now convince Sarkozy of that fact and thereafter combine their efforts to restore proper democracy to the peoples of their two formidable nations!
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