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My reasons for Voting No

KINGVictor · 2009-07-19 22:01:23

To Lisbon 11 1.I believe that The EU is consistently going outside it's scope of economic integration and increasingly becoming a political sham. 2.I believe that the EU is intrinsically made up of two axis -the franco/german and the Anglo,all fighting for political superiority at the expense of other countries. 3.I am…

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#62 21-07-2009 3:52pm
Scofflaw

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Just a further clarification on the issue of the 'political' rather 'economic' aims of the EU - this is from a European Parliament text, and, while it is essentially the preamble to the Treaties again, I think it's slightly clearer that the aims were never just economic:

(1) Whereas the objectives of the Community, as laid down in the Treaty, as amended by the Treaty on European Union, include creating an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe, fostering closer relations between the States belonging to the Community, ensuring economic and social progress by common action to eliminate the barriers which divide Europe, encouraging the constant improvement of the living conditions of its peoples, preserving and strengthening peace and liberty and promoting democracy on the basis of the fundamental rights recognized in the constitution and laws of the Member States and in the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms;

'Economic' gets one mention in there. It's the major tool by which the EU works to reach those goals, but it's not an end in itself.

cordially,
Scofflaw

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