(via European Union Law Blog) If I understand this correctly then Cyprus will reject the treaty of Lisbon. This would guarantee that a second referendum in Ireland wouldn't be necessary because the Treaty couldn't be enacted in its present form anyhow. This will mean yet another period of uncertainty for the EU.
I always felt that it would be necessary for more people to get engaged into EU political topics and this is the case now more then ever. Precisely for this reason I started this blog, more or less one year ago. But the pro-EU Blogosphere is not particularly influential and I do not see that this is going to change anytime soon.
This blog doesn't achieve the update frequency nor the quality necessary to attract a wider audience, and I can not even keep up the update frequency I had in the last week (I also have to do some real work now and then). To keep this blog going I intend to pool my resources with lunovis at 63 Europium and, at least for some time, we are going to cross post our stuff at each others blog.
When it comes to the content of this blog, there are two things I intend to do. Similar to Nosemonkey and Ralf Grahn I will try to make up my mind what is the way forward for Europe. But there is one other thing which I think is important. Pro-EU Blogs can not let all that bullshit coming from the skeptics go unchallenged. At one time I decided that I will not react to the crap written by crazy Eurosceptics anymore but now I think this is a mistake. The referendum has shown that if you throw enough dirt, something will stick.
We in the pro-EU (or constructive Eurosceptic) camp might only want to have a civil debate about the institutional order or the EU, but this is simply not enough. Whatever nice compromise we might come up with, those who want to drag back Europe to the days when Diplomacy was conducted over the barrel of a gun will stop at nothing to destroy it.
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
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You might think I'm a bit crazy for this, and thats alright, I've been called worse.
My background is mainly in American foreign policy and European security, so my perspective is a little different from most of you. There are some things that lead me to suspect that the neocons are the ones behind the defeat of the Lisbon Treaty, as it is clear that neocons believe that the Treaty "threatens American interests" and that the EU "would be able to challenge American global leadership." Well, I knew that and I was glad that Europe took this courageous step.
From what we've seen of "American global leadership" in the past years, a more activist European foreign policy would help curb the excesses of the "hyperpower."
The mentality I see in writings from neocons, which includes the Heritage Foundation, there is a selfish and aggressive drive to hold on the "unipolar moment."
As an American, I am outraged at this expression of foreign policy that seeks to keep Europe from its rightful place on the world stage - especially to keep European security and defense identity chained to the outdated Atlantic Alliance and submissive to American "interests."
This foreign policy doctrine of defending American "global leadership" by depriving Europe and European nations of their right to self determination is actually a struggle for European emancipation from the "Atlantic order."
RZ,
To answer your question: A more effective and democratic union of the willing.
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