Posted on 01/06/2012 3:22:34 PM PST by Olog-hai
British PM David Cameron on Friday (6 January) vowed to do "everything possible" to prevent EU institutions from being used in a new fiscal treaty the UK has refused to join, but admitted there were legal difficulties in pursuing that path.
The treaty negotiations resumed on Friday among 26 member states, with the UK participating as an observer. The text would allow the EU commission, acting "on behalf" of other signatories to the pact, to take deficit sinners to the European Court of Justice.
Cameron, whose veto on EU treaty changes in December led to the creation of this new intergovernmental pact, told BBC 4 Radio on Friday that there are "legal difficulties" over blocking the 26 members from using the EU institutions.
"Part of the problem is that the legal position is unclear. One of the strengths of there not being a treaty within the European Union is that the new thing, whatever it is, can't do things that are the property of the European Union." …
German center-right MEP Elmar Brok, who participated as an observer at the talks on Friday on the new legal text, told this website on the issue of involving the EU commission that "nothing is decided until everything decided."
But he was confident that in the end, the EU executive would get an "even stronger role" than the current wording which allows it to take countries to court "on behalf" of other signatories to the fiscal pact. "It's still an ongoing process," he said after the meeting, as more follow-ups are being scheduled in the coming two weeks.
As for Cameron's opposition to using EU institutions, Brok, a long-standing federalist, said: "He should go to the European Court of Justice then."
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Oh, yeah the Lawyers will figure it all out. How stupid are these guys?
Mr Cameron should check the files for a document they could use as a starting point, the document that starts “When in the course of human events...”
What are they going to do? Fine them? They DON’T HAVE ANY MONEY you dolts, that is why they are in Kangaroo Court.
Allow the subjects of the Eurabian province the UK to vote on being in the EU.
Cameron refused to allow the British subjects to vote on being in the EU. He is a Tranzi.
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