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At the recent Thessaloniki Summit, certain very worrying decisions were taken on the process of European integration. The most notable of these relate to the Convention and the so-called European constitution, to confirmation of the immigration decisions taken at Seville, which aim to create a ‘fortress Europe’, and to the maintenance of the monetarist policies of the Stability Pact and of neoliberal objectives for reforming the labour markets and social and health services, as well as for privatising most public services.
We do not believe that the aforesaid European Constitution can serve as a basis for the work of the Intergovernmental Conference scheduled for October. This conference represents a fresh qualitative leap forward in the process of integration, consolidating the fundamental bases and strands set out in the Treaty of Maastricht. These aspects were developed later at Amsterdam, but above all at Nice, whose treaty came into force a few months ago.
The proposals for altering the European Union’s institutional model are completely unacceptable, since they strengthen the federalist nature of its institutions and its domination by the major powers. I am thinking especially of proposals to end the rotating presidency of the European Council, to elect a president according to rules which give preeminence to the larger countries, to end the practice of each country having a Commissioner, and to extend qualified majority voting at the expense of the right of veto."@en1
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