Non-Imperial Empire Produced Non-Readable Treaty
From the desk of The Brussels Journal
A quote from Giuliano Amato, the Italian Foreign Minister and former Vice President of the European Convention, at a conference in London, 12 July 2007 [audio]
They [EU leaders] decided that [the amended constitutional treaty] should be unreadable. If it is unreadable, it is not [the European Constitution, which the voters rejected in referendums in France and the Netherlands], that was the sort of perception. [...] In order to make our citizens happy, to produce a document that they will never understand [...] There is some truth [in it]. Because if this is the kind of document that the IGC [intergovernmental conference] will produce, any Prime Minister imagine the UK Prime Minister can go to the Commons and say look, you see, its absolutely unreadable, its the typical Brussels treaty, nothing new, no need for a referendum.
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An Air of Celebration in Brussels: Politicians Defeat the People (2), 27 June 2007
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An Air of Celebration in Brussels: Politicians Defeat the People, 26 June 2007
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Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-07-19 |