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Topic: Eurofederalist


  
  NPQ
Opposed to both these camps, "Eurofederalists" are striving to transform the existing international accords into a political constitution so as to provide the decisions of the commission, Council of Ministers and Court of Justice with their own basis for legitimacy.
However, the central opposition between Eurofederalists and market Europeans is complicated by the fact that the latter have concluded a tacit alliance with erstwhile Euroskeptics seeking a "Third Way" based on the existing monetary union.
Eurofederalists strive to enhance the governability of the union, so as to make it possible to implement pan-European policies and regulations that will oblige member states to coordinate their actions, even when the measures involved have a redistributive effect.
www.digitalnpq.org /archive/2000_fall/globalization.html   (4181 words)

  
 EU withdrawal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
An EU of differing memberships would go against the intensely federalist and statist culture of both the elected politicians and, even more vitally, the bureaucrats who effectively control the EU whilst displaying a stupid disdain for the mass of their peoples which would have done service for nobles of the ancien regime.
The political conviction of these Eurofederalists is quasi-religious and consequently beyond the touch of reason or refutation.
The Eurofederalist cause will succeed only if their immediate agenda is completed soon, that is the joining of a single currency followed shortly by British agreement to wholesale majority voting in all the most vital matters of nationhood.
www.worldnewsstand.net /freedom/eu-with2.htm   (3494 words)

  
 European Green Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first goal of the newly founded European Greens was the election campaign for the European Parliament in June, 2004 (see European Parliament Election 2004), which was the first election campaign in Europe that featured similar motifs and slogans in all EU countries.
Critics have suggested that the European Greens do not yet amount to a single party: in particular the different national components have a widely different approach to the European Union ranging from strong eurofederalist forces to eurosceptics.
In the past it has been associated with regionalist and nationalist parties in the European Free Alliance but has not included parties in the Nordic Green Left.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Greens   (485 words)

  
 Spectrezine EU in Crisis
However, from the point of view of the eurofederalist, this neoliberal drive is simply the implementation of the push toward the free movement of services, as defined by the treaties.
In order to create a truly single EU market, the services directive enshrines the "country of origin" principle, whereby firms from other member states can operate in Britain, for instance, without having to comply with British laws and standards.
Therefore, it is not surprising that corporate powers, grouped in the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT) and the European employers' body UNICE, draw up most EU rules through lobbying the unelected European commission.
www.spectrezine.org /europe/Denny3.htm   (1166 words)

  
 LEGAL NEWS - Legal Headline from the wires - full text.
Most of the big decisions, and many of the smaller ones, already belong to the politics of Europe; administrative decisions, inside the European framework, belong to the UK Parliament, and even they can be taken to the European Court of Justice.
Andrew Duff is a British MEP, a Liberal Democrat and a Eurofederalist.
The report, of which he is co-author, was a Eurofederalist report, which a Eurofederalist parliament has now approved.
www.romingerlegal.com /newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo_[fmmkrvrSUhd}38}bfel]!   (1098 words)

  
 Freenations
Boycott them and write to tell them why you are boycotting them and what they need to do to regain your custom (i.e.
Similarly note the Eurofederalist MPs listed in that section and seek to have them de-selected and defeated - regardless of their party or political beliefs.
Do not forget that there is no point in voting for an MP who shares some of your political beliefs if the Parliament to which he wishes you to elect him has no constitutional power to do anything.
home.freeuk.net /freenations/what-you-can-do.html   (703 words)

  
 Spectrezine Europe's Pay Attack by Brian Denny
As this was a clear case of social dumping, the SBWU, with the support of other unions, began industrial action.
Laval argued that this action was not in compliance with EU law and brought the case to the Swedish labour court, which decided to ask for a preliminary ruling by the ardently eurofederalist European Court of Justice.
The court is to decide if industrial action in support of demands for a collective agreement is in compliance with European law, notably Article 49 on freedom of movement to provide services as well as the posting of workers directive.
www.spectrezine.org /europe/Denny5.htm   (1147 words)

  
 Freenations
Introduction: This piece demonstrates for the first time on this website the strong ideological links between Charlemagne's Europe, lauded by the leaders of the European Union (Tony Blair and Roy Jenkins among others have received the Charlemagne Prize of the German City of Aachen), and the Nazis' ambitions for Europe.
The Eurofederalist class created and annually awards the Charlemagne Prize to politicians who forced the integration of Europe because that prize and that aim contrasted with the past evils of European Fascism.
We now reveal that even that is a lie for the Charlemagne Prize was created after the second world war by those who had been political leaders under the Nazis.
www.freenations.freeuk.com /news-2003-12-11.html   (1086 words)

  
 The Guardian
Mr Prodi let the cat out of the bag by admitting that the euro would, indeed, create a crisis that would allow the EU to grab a whole set of economic powers that it has so far been politically unacceptable to advocate.
This use of crisis by Brussels for its own Eurofederalist ends was clearly on display following the September 11 attacks on the US when it made massive strides in grabbing legal powers from member states which had otherwise been considered taboo.
As Mr Prodi declared at the time, "the current crisis could be seen as favouring integration by stressing the need for action at a higher level than a national one".
www.cpa.org.au /garchve5/1079euro.html   (1216 words)

  
 Daily Pundit Archives
Andrew Duff, a delegate belonging to the rabidly Eurofederalist British Liberal Democratic Party, has proposed that nations belonging to the Union not be allowed to withdraw from the treaties of membership without the assent of every other member-state.
This proposal cuts to the heart of a critical question regarding the European Union: is it an international organization for facilitating trade and cooperation among its members, or is it a continent-wide superstate in the making?
A frog was hopping along in the forest, heading home to her family, when all of a sudden she came upon a small river.
www.dailypundit.com /archives/005531.php   (875 words)

  
 “Heil History” - theTrumpet.com
As an individual deprived of memory becomes disoriented and lost, not knowing where he has been and where he is going, so a nation denied a conception of its past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future” (The Disuniting of America).
It follows, then, that one price the British will pay for changing their secondary school curriculum to make it pro-German is a loss of heritage, creating a generation that is measurably more European and less British—meaning it will have a Eurofederalist viewpoint.
The Eurofederalist goal, promoted especially by Germany, is to forge independent European states into a political combine to rival the United States in power and prestige.
www.thetrumpet.com /index.php?page=article&id=2024   (699 words)

  
 Diplomatica
No one seems to have realised that in the history of Europe, patriotism and absolute sovereignty resulted in the catastrophic bloodbaths which led to the foundation of a unified Europe to begin with.
The draft constitution is, indeed, "a step backwards," as Commission President Romano Prodi said in a characteristic eurofederalist criticism of the document.
Those British leftists who continue to insist the Prime Minister seek good relations with the Continent in order to introduce British values to Europe are submitting themselves to the same cocktail of nationalist sentiment which overrides the European debate.
diplomatica.blogspot.com /2003_05_25_diplomatica_archive.html   (7126 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Alcide de Gasperi, Italy's prime minister, embraced the proposal not only because he was a fervent Eurofederalist but also because it might help to strengthen his government's position vis-a-vis the strong Communist opposition.
Although well aware of the proposal's strategic significance, most politicians in the Benelux countries were not much inclined toward Eurofederalism (Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium and Joseph Bech of Luxembourg were notable exceptions).
The most that ardent Eurofederalists hoped for was a further transfer of responsibility for various policy areas from the national to the European level, more supranational authority for the Commission and the Parliament, and the extension of qualified majority voting in the Council of Ministers.
www.mgimo.ru /fileserver/2004/kolledg/Delmartino_mater-lect.doc   (15705 words)

  
 [No title]
Initially, CAEF warnings that Brussels intended to build an armed wing and a military-industrial complex to build its weaponry were dismissed by Europhiles as fantasy.
This once more exposes eurofederalist claims of creating a global counterbalance as a lie.
The Eurofederalist dream has always been to build a global military and economic power — a superstate — to dominate the world along with, and as a rival to, the US.
www.caef.org.uk /d83euwar.html   (1141 words)

  
 THE POWER IN YOUR PURSE
As he explains: "These companies have made it quite clear by their membership of, or contributions to, major Eurofederalist and supranational organisations that in the pursuit of profit they have been prepared to destroy the United Kingdom, its Parliament and the people's democratic rights.
Some make direct financial contributions, others have major proprietorial shareholders who make substantial donations to Eurofederalist groups.
He advocates that you do not buy their products or services again until they have withdrawn all support for the Eurofederalist cause and have ceased to make public statements "in favour of the European State, the Single Currency, the Single European Act, the Maastricht Treaty and the Rome Treaty."
www.sovereignty.org.uk /features/activistinf/purse.html   (614 words)

  
 Freenations
In other words, incredibly for British Conservatives, here we have a German right wing newspaper on the side of the worst eurofederalists.
This is one of the reasons why before the war when we were looking for "good Germans" to resist Hitler, we found that his opponents were either communists or anti-nation state "Conservatives"!
They are eurofederalist, corporatist and mainly Roman Catholic - the latter being the explanation of their desire for a European super-State and their antipathy to democratic nationhood.
home.freeuk.net /freenations/news-2004-05-08.html   (508 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Dutch voters poised to deliver the coup de grĂ¢ce
Michiel van Hulten, the campaign director of the main Yes campaign group, the Better Europe Foundation, said a double No "has got to be the end of the road for the constitution".
The former Dutch Labour MEP added: "The Dutch No is a Eurosceptic No. The French vote is in some ways a Eurofederalist No vote.''
Even if Europe agreed to reopen negotiations on the constitution, it was "hard to see how you could reconcile a Dutch No and a French No".
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/31/weu331.xml   (597 words)

  
 The Sixth International: I have seen the future, and it ... well, it looks like a first draft
He notes that the values enshrined in the constitution are 'human dignity, liberty, democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights.' Call me a rampant eurofederalist, but those always struck me as reasonably nice things.
In fact much of what's in the draft is the sort of thing I would expect to find in a good constitution; indeed, I would expect to find it any constitution, good or no. But Iain's disquiet is not unfounded altogether.
Some of the later articles are non-starters for any but a committed eurofederalist.
www.6thinternational.org /2003/02/i_have_seen_the.html   (1125 words)

  
 Links to other websites
Helmer was singled out for expulsion by Timothy Kirkhope, the Leader of the Tories in the European Parliament.
(It was Kirkhope's letter a couple of years ago to the leader of the Eurofederalist EPP Group which assured the latter he should take no notice of the anti federalist things said in the Tory Party manifesto in the UK).
There is little common ground between the largely Christian Democrat, catholic, corporatist, collectivist, eurofederalist parties in the EPP and the British Conservative Party and under Iain Duncan Smith the Party would probably have left it but Howard' s Tory Party, in another sell out to the discredited Kenneth Clarke, stayed in!
home.freeuk.net /ukconservatism/news-2005-06-08.html   (1384 words)

  
 The campaign against the EU Constitution - Vote No   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The film-makers did not consider it worthwhile to point out that Mr Dykes had been a Conservative MP for 27 years and had defected to the Lib-Dems after losing his seat.
And as a fanatical Eurofederalist, he had long despised Mr Howard's Euroscepticism.
Whichever, neither should be permissible from a publicly funded, supposedly objective, broadcaster.
www.vote-no.com /presscentre/newsarchive.aspx?id=570   (1165 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Politics | Comment | What's really wrong with the Tories
Mr Clarke enjoyed being a "bloke" and just could not make the compromises necessary to be the real political leader many thought he could have been.
His "take me as you find me" approach grated with the huge majority of Tory members who just could not stomach his overtly Eurofederalist credentials.
A bit of trimming here, a bit of hedging there and it was his for the taking.
politics.guardian.co.uk /columnist/story/0,9321,614453,00.html   (1326 words)

  
 What is the official language of the European Union? (page 6) | Antimoon Forum
The British public's fear of loss of jurisdiction and socialist backsliding in a federal Europe is well founded - and Britain, by staying outside, could be the example that might prevent the EU as a whole from smothering all its fully subscribing members with centralized Euro-socialism.
When the possibility of an Atlantic option for Britain is broached, the cry goes up in British Eurofederalist circles that the United Kingdom would be dominated by the United States.
The words "fifty-first state" are often uttered derisively, even though any such association would be a loose one - and as if there were not a much greater danger of Britain being intruded upon by the Europeans.
www.antimoon.com /forum/posts/5659-6.htm   (3219 words)

  
 NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS: Highlights and Exclusives Sept. 29, 2003 Issue
The Swedes' rejection of the Euro last week was no isolated bout of Nordic crankiness, but a sign of the deep disillusionment sweeping Europe, writes Andrew Moravcsik, professor of government and director of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
While it is not the end (or even the beginning of the end) for European integration, it is the end of the cherished Eurofederalist dream (and Euroskeptic nightmare) of a single European state, centralized in Brussels.
A diverse group of Chinese aggrieved are descending on Beijing to protest official corruption.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-21-2003/0002021094&EDATE=   (1034 words)

  
 Democrat Editorial June July 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Even leading eurofanatics like Glyn Ford MEP, writing in Tribune, say the rise of the far right can be ascribed to the fact that national politics is becoming increasingly impotent when faced with the transformation of economies to continental and global dimensions.
What he fails to point out is that he himself acts as a cheerleader for the eurofederalist edifice - including the abolition of national currencies and stripping national governments of any meaningful powers to decide their own destiny - the very process that feeds the far right.
European Commission Romano Prodi can be relied upon to be far more crass and revealing.
www.poptel.org.uk /against-eurofederalism/d63edtrl.html   (513 words)

  
 Feature on single currency matters
The loss of 18 billion in currency reserves, millions of jobs and businesses down the drain and interest rates of 15 per cent led to the collapse in confidence in John Major's eurofanatic Conservative Party and paved the way for a Labour government.
Unfortunately, Tony Blair's regime has been determined to make the same mistakes as previous Tory administrations and force through the eurofederalist empire-building project.
Ludicrous claims from Britain in Europe that British people would warm to the euro once they had been on holiday have rebounded back in their faces.
www.poptel.org.uk /against-eurofederalism/d65erm.html   (1033 words)

  
 TCS Daily - Hail Sovereignty
It has long been proved false in both theory and practice.
It is a paradox that many Europeans still consider the ideology of centralism "modern" in its recent Eurofederalist disguise.
The author is an associate of the Center for Economics and Politics (CEP), Prague.
www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=021005A   (1157 words)

  
 FictionPress.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Well, I'm very pleased to see an openly pro-European piece on here, but I think you may be going a little bit rose-tinted.
I'm actually a Eurofederalist, but even so can't deny that much of the EU is profoundly undemocratic.
For one thing, the elected European Parliament is not the supreme law-making body, and until that changes I will always have reservations.
www.fictionpress.com /reviews.php?storyid=1634160   (918 words)

  
 Freenations
Sir John Butterfil MP Complained that we called him a eurofederalist (despite having long been a leading member of the European Movement).
Believes Conservatives in the European Parliament should be part of the fanatically eurofederalist EPP group.
A corporatist rather than a Conservative, best summed up not only in his eurofederalist fanaticism but in his becoming chairman of a company called Valpak which guides companies through the EU recycling rules which Gummer himself introduced when he was Environment Minister.
www.freenations.freeuk.com /british-eurofederalists.html   (6927 words)

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