Forum: Bryce


Subject: OT: EU Constituion, some insight by draculaz

Zhann opened this issue on Jun 05, 2005 ยท 65 posts


Quest posted Mon, 06 June 2005 at 4:40 PM

How is the 25-nation club to get out of this crisis?

Bryster, I think that the lead-in paragraph to the above article ended with a rhetorical question. In part I think it was more directed at Jean-Claude Juncker, the current president of the EU since he is so committed to the plan and seems to not be able to let it go. As it says in the article:

The legal position is that, for the constitution to come into force, all 25 members of the EU must ratify it. When they signed the text in Rome last October, EU leaders attached a declaration that if, two years later, four-fifths of countries had ratified, but some had encountered difficulties, an EU summit would be held to consider the situation. This declaration is the basis for Mr Junckers insistence that ratification must continue.

And for Dann-O, it seems that the future of the Euro is also in question especially now that the Constitution has taken an apparent defeat:

The French and Dutch referendums have dashed hopes of political union in Europe. As criticism of the euro grows louder, there are fears that monetary union, too, might be in peril

The Economist

LOLBandolin, as if the Canadian and European news networks arent skewed.

Message edited on: 06/06/2005 16:44