Leaflet outlining 13 reasons to reject the EU Constitution
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4 July, 2005
Sinn Féin delegation in GUE/NGL leaflet outlining 13 reasons to reject the EU Constitution
- It lays the legal foundations for a Federal Europe
- It deepens the Democratic Deficit
- It significantly increases in the powers of the European Council and Commission
- It undermines of national sovereignty, national parliaments and the rights of citizens
- It will end neutrality for Ireland and other Member States
- It promotes a policy of substantial militarisation
- It provides for single foreign policy, defence policy and EU foreign minister
- It promotes the centralisation of economic control in the hands of the Council and Commission
- It contains a clear constitutional commitment to a free market neo-liberal economic model
- It promotes an economic model that will deepen existing levels of poverty and social exclusion within the EU
- It will undermine the ability of member states to provide public services
- The Charter of Fundamental Rights has no mechanisms for ensuring compliance, and does not add to the promotion of human rights or equality for citizens
- It promotes policies in relation to the developing world that will deepen the levels of global inequality, poverty and instability
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