"TUTTI NOI SAPPIAMO CHE TRA POCHE ORE IL NOSTRO STATO CESSERA' DI
ESISTERE IN QUANTO ENTITA' INDIPENDENTE E SOVRANA."
Dichiarazione del Presidente della Repubblica Ceca Vaclav Klaus in
occasione della annessione del suo paese alla Unione Europea -
rilasciata a Mlada Fronta / Dnes (Praga) il 22 Aprile 2004.
--- Forwarded Message ---
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:49:00 +0100
From: Anthony Coughlan <jcoughln@...>
Subject: WELCOME TO OUR EU PRISON-HOUSE OF NATIONS! ...statement on EU
enlargement from The National Platform EU Research and Information
Centre, Dublin, Ireland
> The National Platform
> EU RESEARCH AND INFORMATION CENTRE
> 24 Crawford Avenue
> Dublin 9
> Ireland
>
> Tel.: +00-353-1-8305792
>
> Thursday 29 April 2004
> (...)
> _______________
>
>
> WELCOME TO OUR EU PRISON-HOUSE OF NATIONS!
>
>
> ". . . As everyone is well aware, in a few days our State will cease
> to exist as an independent sovereign entity. . ."
>
> - President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic, Mlada Fronta Dnes, 22
> April 2004
>
>
> Like inmates in our EU prison, we welcome new companions. We can be
> confident the new arrivals will help us in time to break down our
> political prison walls. At the same time, we do not wish on the 10 new
> Accession countries the loss of national democracy and political
> independence they now face.
>
> * Last year's referendums on the 10 countries' Accession Treaties
> were travesties of democracy. Public funding, the mass media and the
> referendum rules were grotesquely unbalanced in favour of EU
> accession. The EU Commission, ever anxious to increase its own power,
> interfered massively in favour of the Yes-side - almost certainly in
> breach of EU law, which gives the Commission no competence in treaty
> ratification. The result was that voters in the Accession countries
> went to the polls in virtual total ignorance of the undemocratic,
> power-hungry, institutional monster they are joining next weekend. All
> the more bitter will be the inevitable
> disillusionment of their peoples.
>
> * The 10 Accession countries have got a thoroughly bad deal
> economically and politically. They are required to take into their
> domestic law the 80,000 or so pages of EU directives and regulations
> adopted by the EC/EU since 1957, which they had no part in making,
> even though many of these
> are quite unsuited to their different circumstances.
>
> * The collective imperialism of the EU 15 is shown vividly by their
> insistence that each of the 10 new members must agree to abolish their
> national currencies and adopt the euro in due time as a condition of
> their joining the EU, even though Britain, Denmark and Sweden are not
> abolishing their currencies. When the East Europeans were client
> states of the USSR, the Russians never required them to adopt the
> rouble. Yet the EU 15 are insisting that they adopt the euro.
>
> * EU membership transforms Government Ministers from Executives who
> are subordinate to Legislatures at national level, into supranational
> legislators at EU level. Instead of having to obtain the support of
> their national parliaments in order to pass laws, Government Ministers
> can henceforth make these laws (directives and regulations) for 450
> million
> Europeans behind closed doors as members of an oligarchy of 25 persons
> on the EU Council of Ministers, responsible as a collectivity to no
> one.
> This is a huge increase in their personal power, while their national
> parliaments and peoples, which must obey these laws, are politically
> emasculated. This explains why national Government Ministers support
> this process. It is only a matter of time before the peoples of the
> Accession countries realise this and insist on re-establishing their
> democracy.
>
> The political dynamics of a 25-Member EU will be fundamentally
> different from a 15-Member one. The new members will strengthen the
> international movement to defend the Nation State and restore national
> democracy to the states of Europe. This week's EU enlargement is
> almost certainly the beginning of the end of Euro-federalism. Let us
> rejoice at that.
>
>
> - (ends) -
ESISTERE IN QUANTO ENTITA' INDIPENDENTE E SOVRANA."
Dichiarazione del Presidente della Repubblica Ceca Vaclav Klaus in
occasione della annessione del suo paese alla Unione Europea -
rilasciata a Mlada Fronta / Dnes (Praga) il 22 Aprile 2004.
--- Forwarded Message ---
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:49:00 +0100
From: Anthony Coughlan <jcoughln@...>
Subject: WELCOME TO OUR EU PRISON-HOUSE OF NATIONS! ...statement on EU
enlargement from The National Platform EU Research and Information
Centre, Dublin, Ireland
> The National Platform
> EU RESEARCH AND INFORMATION CENTRE
> 24 Crawford Avenue
> Dublin 9
> Ireland
>
> Tel.: +00-353-1-8305792
>
> Thursday 29 April 2004
> (...)
> _______________
>
>
> WELCOME TO OUR EU PRISON-HOUSE OF NATIONS!
>
>
> ". . . As everyone is well aware, in a few days our State will cease
> to exist as an independent sovereign entity. . ."
>
> - President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic, Mlada Fronta Dnes, 22
> April 2004
>
>
> Like inmates in our EU prison, we welcome new companions. We can be
> confident the new arrivals will help us in time to break down our
> political prison walls. At the same time, we do not wish on the 10 new
> Accession countries the loss of national democracy and political
> independence they now face.
>
> * Last year's referendums on the 10 countries' Accession Treaties
> were travesties of democracy. Public funding, the mass media and the
> referendum rules were grotesquely unbalanced in favour of EU
> accession. The EU Commission, ever anxious to increase its own power,
> interfered massively in favour of the Yes-side - almost certainly in
> breach of EU law, which gives the Commission no competence in treaty
> ratification. The result was that voters in the Accession countries
> went to the polls in virtual total ignorance of the undemocratic,
> power-hungry, institutional monster they are joining next weekend. All
> the more bitter will be the inevitable
> disillusionment of their peoples.
>
> * The 10 Accession countries have got a thoroughly bad deal
> economically and politically. They are required to take into their
> domestic law the 80,000 or so pages of EU directives and regulations
> adopted by the EC/EU since 1957, which they had no part in making,
> even though many of these
> are quite unsuited to their different circumstances.
>
> * The collective imperialism of the EU 15 is shown vividly by their
> insistence that each of the 10 new members must agree to abolish their
> national currencies and adopt the euro in due time as a condition of
> their joining the EU, even though Britain, Denmark and Sweden are not
> abolishing their currencies. When the East Europeans were client
> states of the USSR, the Russians never required them to adopt the
> rouble. Yet the EU 15 are insisting that they adopt the euro.
>
> * EU membership transforms Government Ministers from Executives who
> are subordinate to Legislatures at national level, into supranational
> legislators at EU level. Instead of having to obtain the support of
> their national parliaments in order to pass laws, Government Ministers
> can henceforth make these laws (directives and regulations) for 450
> million
> Europeans behind closed doors as members of an oligarchy of 25 persons
> on the EU Council of Ministers, responsible as a collectivity to no
> one.
> This is a huge increase in their personal power, while their national
> parliaments and peoples, which must obey these laws, are politically
> emasculated. This explains why national Government Ministers support
> this process. It is only a matter of time before the peoples of the
> Accession countries realise this and insist on re-establishing their
> democracy.
>
> The political dynamics of a 25-Member EU will be fundamentally
> different from a 15-Member one. The new members will strengthen the
> international movement to defend the Nation State and restore national
> democracy to the states of Europe. This week's EU enlargement is
> almost certainly the beginning of the end of Euro-federalism. Let us
> rejoice at that.
>
>
> - (ends) -