Tuesday, June 07, 2005
WILL THE EU SURVIVE ?
Last week's double rejection of the European Constitution by the French and Dutch electorate is a huge blow for Europe and its attempts to make the European Union more manageable after the enlargement of the bloc.
The fact that the constitutional treaty was rejected by two founding members of the EU, France and the Netherlands, is especially significant. The huge size of the negative vote - 55 per cent in France and 63 per cent in the Netherlands - cannot be ignored or brushed aside and sends a very strong signal to both Brussels and these countries' respective governments that politicians are sometimes detached from their citizens. It is also very true, however, that voters, especially the French, were also voting on domestic issues.
Unfortunately the issue of the Christian history of Europe is not even mentioned.
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