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"With a right of withdrawal, recognised at the end of its first part, and with the need, recognised at the end of its fourth part, for ‘constitutional’ amendments to be ratified unanimously, the ‘European Constitution’ has in those ways incorporated two sane benchmarks into a document that, at the start, insanely took the law into its own hands by stealing the designation ‘constitution’ in order to cover up its intergovernmental nature.
With more than 400 articles, progress is being made in the following areas: the classification of legal acts as European laws, framework laws or ‘delegated’ laws; and the creation of a Minister of Foreign Affairs and three Presidents – of the European Council, the Council of Ministers and the Commission – and of a whole orchestra of institutional instruments in which, although the conductor cannot be tracked down, it is easy to locate the big drum of the European Parliament which, once more, is gaining in volume without managing to gain in political credibility.
While making a lot of noise with its institutional ironmongery, the European Constitution still remains silent, however, on two subjects of major importance: on the one hand
the necessary protection of democracies crushed by the media power of empires ranging from Murdoch’s to Berlusconi’s; and on the other hand
the protection of taxpayers against what will be ever more punitive taxes."@en1
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