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Why am I voting against the EU Reform Treaty and the Intergovernmental Conference mandate?
6. No European Parliament powers of scrutiny for common foreign and security policy;
7. The ECJ has no power to rule on matters of foreign and security policy;
8. Military solidarity clause on combating terrorism;
9. EU battle groups for EU rapid military inventions around the world (now included in the Treaty);
10. Structured military cooperation. Individual Member States can press ahead with defence policy;
11. Provision for an independent EU defence budget in addition to individual national defence budgets.
EU armament and EU militarisation have been speeded up. The defence sector was the backbone of the Constitution. The planned Reform Treaty is also a military treaty.
Ireland's Prime Minister, Mr Ahern, has said that round 90% of the core European Constitution package remains unchanged. Mathematically that is true, but the people of France and the Netherlands have been cheated.
'The second Chapter contains the provisions of Title V of the existing TEU, as amended in the 2004 IGC (including the European External Action Service and the permanent structured cooperation in the field of defence).' (IGC mandate)
Thus all the rules in the Constitution relating to defence will be included in the new EU Reform Treaty. In practice, that means the Treaty will contain the following:
1. EU commitment to increasing military capacities;
2. EU Armaments Agency (now in the Treaty);
3. New military intervention options such as 'disarmament measures', for which read disarmament by force;
4. Military support for third countries 'in combating terrorism in their territory';
5. Close cooperation between the EU and NATO;"@en1
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