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Parliament has just welcomed the last European Council’s commitment to reaching an agreement by 17 June on the draft European constitution, giving ‘practical expression to what is a fresh start for our continent’.
It would indeed be a fresh start, as it would represent a decisive leap towards a super-state, and a move further away from the plurality of sovereign states that has always characterised Europe.
More precisely, the compromise plans that are circulating at the moment, aimed at reaching a final agreement, suggest that the principle of ‘double majority’ in decision-making at the Council will probably be accepted, which means that a criterion will be introduced that weights the votes of each country according to the size of its population. We would thus be moving towards calculating an overall majority without taking account of national borders, as though there were one single unified people in the EU.
Such a step, which is already to be found in the Thucydides quotation at the top of the draft constitution, negates the pluralism of Europe’s nations. It is at the root of people’s feelings of alienation; people do not feel part of the current institutions. It is essentially for this reason that I am opposed to the draft Constitution."@en1
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