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Referendum: EU Commission decides?
no border no nation no deportation - 31.05.2005 04:26

In the Final Act - III.A.30 - of the Treaty to Establish a Constitution for Europe, the European Commission is given the right to ignore the vetoes of 5 EU member states. Warning: the EU web pages do *not* have the final text of the Treaty (29.10.2004), they only have the pages of the *draft* treaty (18.07.2003).

Final Act - III.A.30 - of the Treaty to Establish a Constitution for Europe

http://europa.eu.int/constitution/futurum/constitution/declaration/finalact_en.htm

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DECLARATION IN THE FINAL ACT OF SIGNATURE OF THE TREATY ESTABLISHING THE CONSTITUTION

If, two years after the signature of the Treaty establishing the Constitution, four fifths of the Member States have ratified it and one or more Member States have encountered difficulties in proceeding with ratification, the matter will be referred to the European Council.

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In other words, the text itself says that the prime ministers and presidents and the EU Commission can tell the citizens of five EU countries to kindly fuck off if they vote "No" to the constitution treaty - it will declare the treaty accepted anyway.

With this sort of anti-democratic loophole hidden in the text for the basic method of deciding on the treaty to create a constitution, you can expect even more loopholes to centralise power elsewhere in the treaty.

The fact that the EU institutions have only published the 18 July 2003 *draft* version of the treaty, also suggests that they are not going to accept any pressure for more transparency in decision-making:

http://europa.eu.int/constitution/futurum/constitution/index_en.htm

The present text - on which the Wednesday 1 June 2005 referendum is about - is from 29 October 2004 - it is *different* (in some ways) from the text on the EU web site.

Website: http://europa.eu.int/constitution/futurum/constitution/declaration/finalact_en.htm

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