Posts Tagged EU Constitution
Especially for EU
Posted by Pete Quentin in Uncategorized on 10/09/2008
Valery Giscard d’Estaing explored the idea that Britain should be offered a ‘special status’ within the EU at a conference held in Westminster on Monday, writes Laura Kelleher. The former French President and author of the EU constitution reaffirmed his commitment to European integration, but suggested that British opt-out clauses should take the form of a ‘special status’ in future.
Moore Balls Recycled
Posted by Pete Quentin in European Union on 22/05/2007
The weekend papers had a number of contributions focused on the EU and the increasingly resurgent issue of its proposed Constitution. Charles Moore spent his Saturday wrestling with the trials of recycling (in his Telegraph article at least), as imagined up by both the architects of the new Landfill Directive and those of that soon-to-be-recycled Constitution. He did a thorough job of detailing the various means by which it will further strip sovereignty from member states without even consulting their electorates. The article can be found here.
A day later it was the turn of Ed Balls, writing in the Sunday Times, to do his own piece on recycling – denouncing the ‘outdated and sterile’ arguments of ‘anti-Europeans’. While he may have called for a ‘reframing of the British debate’, it seems he was less keen on reframing than on grasping an opportunity to repaint the EU-sceptics as misguidedly, and dangerously, nationalist.