Re: EU Constitution, yes or no?

a.d.danilecki wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olivier Laurent) wrote in message
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>> What we need is an assembly that reflects the European population and
>> in such terms it must be more German or French than Spanish
>> representants. I'm from a smaller state than Spain and I don't mind.
> 
> EU is not just large state, it is union of many political bodies.
> Everyone of that states will resign from the same part of their
> political sovereignty. Therefore, it's hard to use only population
> numbers and ignore all other levels.

That is why the double majority requiring a majority of states and a
super-majority of the population makes sense. It takes into account the
dual nature of the EU. Similarly, the small states are over-represented by
population in the EP, again taking the dual nature into account.

Jan
> 
>> Nice was a huge disapointment. The French governement had a very
>> miserable performance during the negociation.
> 
> Current proposition is biig disapointemnt. It is a large step into
> assuring EU citizens that France and Germany consider themselves EU.
> It will also be large step into convincing people in places like
> Poland that Nice was just the trick to make them vote yes, since Nico
> voting system was used as a argument all the time that EU won't f* us
> as it seem now it will.