The European Constitution
Posted: May 29th, 2005, 1:09 pm
Today is an important day for Europe.
A constitution has been written, analysed and approved by 25 governments.
Some have decided to ask their people for a referendum, others not.
In any case, every country has given the green light.
Everyone, that is, except for... Yes, you guessed it, France.
Here's the deal: the constitution that has been proposed to us, in short, is yet another step towards liberalism. It promotes governments making way for big enterprises, and the public services are only mentionned once. Instead of having a European mail service, European train service, etc, they want to privatise everything. Some public companies have even started infiltrating other companies to rivalise with them (like the German postal service).
The dilemna is that even though people don't want more hours for less pay and more dangerous work conditions (for a start), there are two arguments to make the no-ers swallow their pill:
a)the constitution will make us able to be more competitive against the U.S, China, etc (mostly used by liberals)
b)it has taken Europe years to write this constitution, and if the vote isn't unanimous and the constitution doesn't pass, it'll take ages to write a new one, which won't be as efficient because of the competitivity rise.
In other words, we finally can unite all the goverments of Europe, well OK we added "a few" liberal bits and pieces here and there, you can disagree if you want, except that you can't, because if you do we're all gonna be in trouble.
And well... you know the French, everytime their government wants to impose something on them they usually end up with a revolution on their hands.
What ticks me off is that none of the governments asked the people's opinions when they wrote their document, until any kind of modification was impossible. It's either their way or no way at all, they "couldn't think of a better way to do things". I also don't understand the docile attitude of the peoples who seem to resign themselves to the situation. Especially those who haven't even been asked to vote.
Last time I checked the polls it was 56%no against 44%yes.
The results are exactly in 1 hour.
And I don't want this constitution to pass.
lol
Well if there really is no other way we can always validate it to modify it later on, according to what the people want. But if we validate it I'm not so sure politicians will let us triffle around with it...
A constitution has been written, analysed and approved by 25 governments.
Some have decided to ask their people for a referendum, others not.
In any case, every country has given the green light.
Everyone, that is, except for... Yes, you guessed it, France.
Here's the deal: the constitution that has been proposed to us, in short, is yet another step towards liberalism. It promotes governments making way for big enterprises, and the public services are only mentionned once. Instead of having a European mail service, European train service, etc, they want to privatise everything. Some public companies have even started infiltrating other companies to rivalise with them (like the German postal service).
The dilemna is that even though people don't want more hours for less pay and more dangerous work conditions (for a start), there are two arguments to make the no-ers swallow their pill:
a)the constitution will make us able to be more competitive against the U.S, China, etc (mostly used by liberals)
b)it has taken Europe years to write this constitution, and if the vote isn't unanimous and the constitution doesn't pass, it'll take ages to write a new one, which won't be as efficient because of the competitivity rise.
In other words, we finally can unite all the goverments of Europe, well OK we added "a few" liberal bits and pieces here and there, you can disagree if you want, except that you can't, because if you do we're all gonna be in trouble.
And well... you know the French, everytime their government wants to impose something on them they usually end up with a revolution on their hands.
What ticks me off is that none of the governments asked the people's opinions when they wrote their document, until any kind of modification was impossible. It's either their way or no way at all, they "couldn't think of a better way to do things". I also don't understand the docile attitude of the peoples who seem to resign themselves to the situation. Especially those who haven't even been asked to vote.
Last time I checked the polls it was 56%no against 44%yes.
The results are exactly in 1 hour.
And I don't want this constitution to pass.
lol
Well if there really is no other way we can always validate it to modify it later on, according to what the people want. But if we validate it I'm not so sure politicians will let us triffle around with it...