draft EU Constitution

dathi1

A draft EU Constitution or Constitutional Treaty will be presented to the
next plenary session of M.Valery Giscard d'Estaing's Convention on the
Future of Europe on 28-29 October next.

This draft EU Treaty will take the form of a single document in two parts -
the first part being constitutional and wholly rewritten by the Convention,
which will give an extensive human rights competence to the EU Court of
Justice, and the second part setting out and consolidating the "acquis
communautaire" of the EU treaties, including the changes indicated in the
first part.

This has been agreed by the 14-member Convention Praesidium,of which
Ireland's John Bruton TD is a member, and was announced in Brussels last
Friday by Convention Vice-President Giuliano Amato.

It is expected that the draft EU Constitution or Constitutional Treaty will
have different ratification schemes for its two different parts - one for
amending the constitutional part and another for amending the
non-constitutional part.This is to make it more difficult for "awkward
squad" countries like Denmark or Ireland, whose constitutions require
referendums before further surrenders of national sovereignty, to prevent
closer integration by a core group of EU Member States.

The 28-29 October draft constitutional Treaty is likely to incorporate
many of the provisions of the Christian Demcrat draft Constitution that was
published in Strasbourg last week by Elmar Brok MEP. Article 162 of this
draft proposes that the EU should be able to impose direct taxes on EU
citizens, and that the EU Court of Justice should be given an extensive
human rights competence.

Such a human rights competence, which it is widely agreed will be a core
central of the next EU Treaty, would make the ECJ supreme in the vast and
highly sensitive area of human rights over national Constitutions and
Supreme Courts,as well as the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

An alternative course on human rights would be for the European Union to
subscribe to the European Convention on Human Rights and recognise the
jurisdiction of the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights, as the EU Member
States already do individually.

The EU-federalists are unwilling to take this course,however, for that
would make the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg subordinate to the
European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. It would prevent the EU Court
obtaining control of human rights, with its huge federalising potential, as
it set out to impose a common standard of rights across the EU, much as the
judgements of the US Federal Supreme Court played a key role in turning the
USA into a federal State.


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Chaos-Engine

We eagerly await the draft.
I for one will not support a loose constitution
It must be bold to succeed
AND, I don't think the Pro-Life camp will like the idea of the EU having control of human rights. That would pretty much make it a womans right to choose.

Most people don't even know the EU convention exists. They will go nuts once they find out that John Bruton's and some of his cronies have been writing a constitution in a secret palace in Belgium...
We await the war of words. As there will be one I garuntee.

dathi1

Well this isn't the first time the Blueshirts colluded to form a FrancoGerman euro superstate