http://europefrombelow.cafebabel.com/en/ Focus on the political and social issues of the European integration process with a special view from below. This blog will follow , step by step, the European people movements acting for a different, more democratic and federal Europe. You will find news and updates concerning European wide campaigns, actions, rallies, demonstrations, strikes, forum and assemblies aiming to build a political and social "Europe from below". Making Europe depends on you, too! en Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:33:31 +02:00 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dotclear http://europefrombelow.cafebabel.com/en/post/2007/07/18/The-European-hypocrisy-of-Nicolas-Sarkozy#c42 urn:md5:ccda048a79af1216e8bd14e02f94b1f8 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:25:39 +02:00 Europe <p>First of all we don't have anymore a Constitution but only a Treaty. A Treaty is a contract between States. A Constitution is for and by citizens. The 27 National Governments denied the Constitutional perspective. They didn't respect the desire of the European citizens that in the same days of European Council expressed themselves (see Eurobarometer) in favour of a European Constitution and a European referendum.</p> <p>Concerning Sarkozy's european feeling I think, honestly, that he is not a true European. He uses Europe because France needs it for his 'grandeur' but he (as the other 26 leaders) doesn't accept to give more power to Europe in the field, for example, of foreign and security policy.</p> <p>France and UK are not open to substitute their seat in the UN Security Council with a European one. Europe will not be an actor of peace until it will have a common policy (with majority vote).</p> <p>I have found very contradictory the fact that the 27 European Leaders deleted every reference to the symbols of European identity in the treaties and only after few days Sarkozy used them in a public and official parada.</p> <p>National governments hided (in the treaties) the European reality because they hope to maintain a national power they don't have anymore.</p> <p>Please stop to think and act with a distorted eye.<br /> Please forgive national view and adopt a cosmopolitan view. The last view is the only one that permit us to read what is happening and to find a solution to our problems.</p> <p>Nicola</p> http://europefrombelow.cafebabel.com/en/post/2007/07/18/The-European-hypocrisy-of-Nicolas-Sarkozy#c41 urn:md5:d9586955f4224fcf41a2850ed2173a50 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:36:58 +02:00 g <p>I am not sure I understand your recrimination. Is it for the simplified constitution ? the fact that such a european Bastille day was long long overdue ? that you doubt the trueness of Sarkozy´s european feeling ?</p>