Wednesday, October 16, 2002

Are They Bloody Nuts Alert!
More on the EU from the Telegraph (UK) who amazes with Labour's blueprint for EU constitution:
The Government sketched out its plans for a European constitution yesterday, agreeing to put justice and home affairs under Brussels control for the first time and to avoid any action in defence, foreign policy and economics that goes against the collective interest.

The document, a Constitutional Treaty of the European Union, is the clearest indication yet of Labour's negotiating position in the Convention on the Future of Europe, a 105-strong body of "founding fathers" drawing up a blueprint for Europe's new system of government.

The text was drafted by an outside team under Alan Dashwood, a Cambridge professor of European law, but it amounts to a Government proposal as it was financed, vetted, and distributed by the Foreign Office.

Until this year, the Government was opposed to a constitution but has decided that it would consume too much political capital to block it.
Looks like the Labour hacks are a little shy too.