March 2, 2005
MILLION DOLLAR BABIES:
SPANISH MINISTER'S VERDICT: EU plan 'death of nations' (DAVID WOODING, 3/02.05, Daily Sun)
BRITAIN’S days as an independent country will soon be over, Spain’s foreign minister boasted yesterday.Miguel Angel Moratinos said it is only a matter of time before we are swallowed up by a new European superstate.
And he admitted that the EU Constitution will be a death warrant for sovereignty of the 25 member states.
Mr Moratinos declared: “We are witnessing the last remnants of national politics.”
And asked if the treaty would strip parliaments like Westminster of the right to set their own laws he replied: “Absolutely.”
NAFTA beckons. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 2, 2005 12:00 AM
....he said, gazing longingly, expectantly, purposefully, confidently across the water towards Dover from Calais....
Posted by: Barry Meislin at March 2, 2005 1:57 AMWhy does Spain get its own vote in the UN?
Posted by: Keith R at March 2, 2005 5:27 AMSo much for Spain's vaunted difference. They sold out their national birthright for a pig in a poke, not even a mess of potage. This is behavior so swinish as to be beyond Gallic.
NAFTA works because of what it doesn't affect not because of what it does affect. Each member nation runs its own affairs, only matters that affect trade come under its aegis.
Posted by: Bart at March 2, 2005 6:19 AMFor perhaps a bit of background (or color), you might want to google
Moratinos + Arafat
Posted by: Barry Meislin at March 2, 2005 7:38 AMThis a remarkably frank admission of the patently obvious, but otherwise unadvertised, purpose of the EU. Hope the Brits, and the soon to be members from central and eastern europe, take careful note and ponder well their impending political death.
Posted by: Luciferous at March 2, 2005 11:58 AMSo, then, wouldn't it be OK for Spain to give into the Basque seperatists' demands and give them their own country, because they're all going to be part of the greater end-of-boundaries European Union, where no member states have any sovereignty?
Posted by: John at March 2, 2005 12:32 PMIts not just the basques, the Catalonians and other regions are ready to bolt Spain.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at March 2, 2005 5:48 PMAhh, no more will Brittania foul the sea around us or the land under our feet!
Posted by: Dave W. at March 2, 2005 11:25 PM