How far are you willing to go in your support of the project?

I can’t find the post now but some time back I wrote that regardless of any outcome of a referendum on the EU constitution we would find the thing implemented piecemeal anyhow. It comes as no surprise to me, or probably to anyone else, that this seems to be exactly what is happening:

Far more outrageous would to push ahead with the implementation of the contents of the constitution without popular consent.

Yet this is precisely what you are doing. Look at the number of policies and institutions envisaged by the constitution that have been, or are being, enacted regardless: the European External Action Service, the European Human Rights Agency, the European Defence Agency, the European Space Programme, the European External Borders Agency, a justicable Charter of Fundamental Rights.

In light of this here is a question to those that support closer political and legislative union within the EU:

Do you still lend your support to the project knowing that this is the way it is operating?

The question requires a moderate amount of thought and self reflection to answer because in that answer lies the very essence of where one actually stands politically, democratically and, frankly, personally.

Posted by John at January 20, 2006 08:38 AM | TrackBack