[So Cal Rocket]

From the EU constitution:

"The Union shall work for a Europe of sustainable development based on balanced economic growth, a social market economy, highly competitive and aiming at full employment and social progress, and with a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment."

Yes, SOCIALISM is constituted in this entity.

[widgysoft]

"full employment" ??

are they on loopy drugs or something.

[randog]

"The Union shall work for a Europe of sustainable development based on balanced economic growth, a social market economy, highly competitive and aiming at full employment and social progress, and with a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment."

Did they use the Dilbert Mission Statement Generator to come up with this tripe?

[Martin Tell]

As much fun as it is to bash Europe, there really is nothing new in this part of the proposed EU Consititution. It is very similar to Article 2 of the existing Treaty of Rome (as amended by the Maastrict and Amsterdam Treaties):

"to promote throughout the Community a harmonious, balanced and sustainable development of economic activities, a high level of employment and of social protection, equality between men and women, sustainable and non-inflationary growth, a high degree of competitiveness and convergence of economic performance, a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment, the raising of the standard of living and quality of life, and economic and social cohesion and solidarity among Member States."

It's all high level goals that don't really mean that much anyway, useful mainly for lawyers to argue policy in cases before the European Court of Justice.

As to this being a socialist document, well, most EU nations are socialist, so what sort of "government" do you suppose they would create?

Many hard-core Euro-leftists actually oppose the EU as they consider it pro-business and the fiscal discipline required under the Single Currency/Monetary Union is not seen as condusive to the growth of the welfare state.

[Bogey78O]

"aiming at full employment and social progress"

Is that "full employment....and social progress"

or is it

"full....employment and social...progress"?

My guess is number 2 since France's 12-13% unemployment is embarassing. Plus employment progress means getting as few people to work as possible and taking from them to pay for everyone else.

[The Raven]

"The Union shall work for a Europe of sustainable development based on balanced economic growth, a social market economy, highly competitive and aiming at full employment and social progress, and with a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment."

....and strive for the destruction of the United States governement and all it stands for.

[Smile-n-Win]

"The Union shall work for a Europe of sustainable development based on balanced economic growth, a social market economy, highly competitive and aiming at full employment and social progress, and with a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment."

LOL Is that nonsensical sentence really in the constitution? "A Europe of sustainable development" ? Bwahahahaha!

What a bunch of clowns.