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Originally posted by Euroche
That's a load of crap.
Well if its not meant to develop and progress Europe it's certainly done a good job inadvertantly. The Irish know this all too well. The spanish, greeks, polish and eastern european countries are all benefiting from European investment.
Personally i think erasing European borders is an excellent development.
The nation state as we know it is devolving and has been for some time.
Those who rally against Europe are simply backward peasants with no vision of the future.
Originally posted by Pro-genetic
The difference between hitler or napoleon or any other dictator who tried to conquor europe is that they tried to force people to do it with a gun to there heads where as the EU is done by consensus! The carrot works much better than the stick!
Originally posted by blueorder
Originally posted by Pro-genetic
The difference between hitler or napoleon or any other dictator who tried to conquor europe is that they tried to force people to do it with a gun to there heads where as the EU is done by consensus! The carrot works much better than the stick!
yes, the consensus of the referendums in Ireland, and the previous ones in France and Holland, they really give two sh its about consensus!
Originally posted by John82
Good point. Ireland might only be less than 1% of the population of Europe but of the 491 million people in the EU only about 4.1 million had the opportunity to vote on the treaty. Last time they tried for an EU constitution more people were allowed to vote on it and more people voted against it. Next time I predict even fewer people will get to vote because they are just going to keep pushing it until they get what they want. The treaty is dead, long live the treaty!
Your whole idea about America is exactly why you arefaultering now. It thought it could go it alone; and is now realising that it can't.
Originally posted by Pro-genetic
You mention France and netherlands as those who said no in a referendum, what about those that said yes in a public vote for the constitution....spain and luxemburg for instance.
And being Irish myself I can tell you that most people voted no because
the treaty was never explained to them, if you dont understand a text you are going to vote no regardles of what it is about, if it goes to a second vote next year then it will be voted in as people now know what the text does and how it does it, maybe 10% of those who voted no did so because they were against it!
And yes europe does care about consensus, the fact that they had to change the treaty to satisfy the french and dutch is proof of that!
Otherwise they would have ploughed on regardles.