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The proposals included in this report arise from and develop the process begun at Maastricht, which defined federalism as the direction for today’s ‘European integration’. The report contains proposals that undermine the national sovereignty of the European Union Member States, and we reject them, notably the proposal that foreign policy and the definition of the legal basis of a ‘common area of freedom and security’ should become the exclusive competence of the EU. These proposals are extreme compared with others that have upheld shared competences. Another proposal that stands out is that the funding of the Community budget should be exclusively an EU responsibility, with the consequence that instruments like a ‘Europe tax’ would be created, something we also reject.
In general terms, the report aims at the constitutionalisation of the Treaties, placing them above the national constitutions in fundamental competences. Even in the case of competences shared between the EU and the Member States, the definition places the EU as the one that ‘lays down the rules’, ‘coordinates’ or ‘intervenes in a complementary or a supplementary fashion’. The nation states would virtually be left with just the transposition of rules or the implementation of guidelines using the budgetary and tax resources available to them, as in the significant example of the attempt to renationalise the costs of the common agricultural policy."@en1
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