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To: So Cal Rocket
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.

19 posted on 06/14/2003 1:22:27 PM PDT by Martin Tell
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To: Martin Tell
This crap didn't work in Soviet Empire, why do they think it will work with bunch of diverse cultures and aspirations? Yeah, put France in charge. It is like someone would come with idea of abandoning family structures and live in one "nice harmonious big (screwed up) happy family" - Marxist crap, NWO marching orders.
22 posted on 06/14/2003 1:35:21 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian
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