Posted on 05/29/2005 1:12:07 PM PDT by Betaille
French voters have rejected the proposed EU constitution in Sunday's referendum, according to an exit poll. The poll quoted by French TV gives the "No" side 55% - in line with surveys published in the run-up to the vote.
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The right to surrender shall not be infringed.
Ah Michele, you're French, you should be used to losing...anyhow, shut up and put some ice on it....
I guess you weren't around for the civil war. Oh well, that was American blood spilled on American soil, so we can ignore that as insignificant.
The carnage you talk about in Europe was of your own making, so why do demand instantaneous sympathy?
I may be hopelessly dense, but I don't see how such disparate social welfare systems, or economic policies, can possibly exist for long in the EU as this Constitution is crafted.
There will be immediate pressure to bring them into line with each other, and for the central government to conduct most of the taxation and law making to get into accordance with this Constitution. The central bureaucracy has far too much power in comparison with the nations' governments, and in order to keep the currency somewhat stable and people from migrating rapidly from "bad" to "good" situations (however they would define that) that central government will use that power and rapidly force an equalization of such programs and tax policy.
If there is to be a successful bringing together of Europe, I believe it has to be more like our Confederation of States - a very weak central government with very limited and defined powers and responsibility (centralized military? guidelines suggested for laws the nations adopt voluntarily? etc.) and most power remaining with the nations. That situation would have to exist for some time, and gradually be expanded as the countries grow more interdependent and similarly based. This EU concept tried to go too fast toward unification, I think, possibly because of the french Euroweenies pressure of trying to challenge the US.
Well Done to the French once again !
I must say, I am surprised at what has happened in france today.
Well they should know since France is a professional at being defeated.
French exercise: Hands UP
Somehow, I'm reminded of that grand old saying, "What goes around comes around"!
Couldn't have happend to a finer poisonous snake!
HAHAHAHAHOHONONHEHEHEHE!!!! (Hopefully, they'll be coming to take him away)
Me too. I thought it would be close, and the Eurocrats would cheat. Given all that was raise against a "Non" vote it is a true mandate, or so it would seem to me.
But, what about the minority's rights to be E-Uionized?
Welcome to Free Republic. Great input!
That's bad news, not excellent.
There is strength in unity for our Mother Continent. Of course, first they have to get rid of socialistic way of doing and thinking, and, of course, stop the immigration from Africa, Muslim/Arab countries and other non-Western countries. Actually, immigration to Europe is not as bad a problem as it is here in the States, still it's better to conserve our beloved continent's original demographics.
You have to type in the words <img src="web site where pic was loaded and end it with " then equal and then
> go ahead and try it out for yourself
20/20 hindsight says he would have been better off doing that. As it stands right now, he's finished politically...
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