tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post1579221510584303658..comments2024-01-16T08:40:53.682+00:00Comments on <a href="http://www.openeurope.org.uk">Open Europe</a>: The Draft Euro Fiscal Pact: Pretty Bad News for Cameron...OEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00556463374230498875noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-13679971614171253242012-01-10T15:32:50.817+00:002012-01-10T15:32:50.817+00:00The future is dictated by a game combining "G...The future is dictated by a game combining "Grandmother's Footsteps" and "cheat" to which no one in a role of state authority or public recognition will clearly admit. They all seek to gain and fear to lose.EUbrainwashinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04613060511249058045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-85600846181183027032012-01-07T18:04:54.627+00:002012-01-07T18:04:54.627+00:00There's a rather long and detailed, but very u...There's a rather long and detailed, but very useful, legal analysis here:<br /> <br />http://www.europeanfoundation.org/my_weblog/2012/01/margarida-vasconcelos-brussels-up-to-its-usual-legal-tricks.html<br /> <br />The problem is that there's little prospect of successful, let alone timely, legal action over any of the multiple illegalities committed over recent years and those now planned for the future in connection with the extra-EU fiscal treaty, because as Cameron is quoted as saying, putting it mildly: <br /> <br />"... the European Court of Justice tends to come down on the side of whatever more Europe involves.”<br /> <br />Which of course is why the German federalist MEP Elmar Brok is prepared to taunt Cameron by saying:<br /> <br />http://euobserver.com/19/114788<br /> <br />"He should go to the European Court of Justice then."Denis Coopernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-64640638346224228472012-01-06T23:11:59.789+00:002012-01-06T23:11:59.789+00:00But the worst case scenario requires all the other...But the worst case scenario requires all the other member states to sign up to this pact and there have been indications that not all of them will do so.Sheonanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-85994299100023141852012-01-06T22:18:00.355+00:002012-01-06T22:18:00.355+00:00There is now an unanswerable moral case for a refe...There is now an unanswerable moral case for a referendum on this and a referendum now. We cannot allow five years to pass and wait for them to back the provisions into the EU treaty.Catholic Conclavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06227218883606585321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-11807940151798049422012-01-06T16:42:47.819+00:002012-01-06T16:42:47.819+00:00Forget the politics (hmmm), the only question is w...Forget the politics (hmmm), the only question is whether this is lawful. If it is, let them get on with it, if not stop it. Who has got the guts to push the lawfulness argument, and not budge?Mike Atkinsnoreply@blogger.com