I noted in social commentary today....the question came up...does the EU have a constitution?
I spent around 30 minutes reading over this, and the 'answer'.
NO, there is NO EU constitution.
There was an attempt around 2004/2005...basically, the idea was...the EU would draft up one, and each 'state' would vote to accept it.
Right off the bat...vote came in France and Netherlands....both failing. Summer of 2005....the whole idea got dumped, and has never come up again.
I sat last night....some interview with a EU representative...trying to talk over Poland and saying that the EU requires certain procedures/processes with a EU member's Supreme Court. It stuck out in my mind today...wondering...where such EU power exists. Well...there is no such expectation or 'power'.
What rights you, or your company, or your dog have.....is based strictly off your home-country. If you hauled off to Greece or Ireland....you basically get a 'free' way to rights of that country.
The one impression I get...a lot of journalists since Saturday....seem to be hyped-up over the EU and talking rights....but it's basically BS.
The EU is much like the UN...a waste of time and money.
ReplyDeleteHaving been stationed in Germany in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s....I will agree....there were tons of things which needed EU-fixing (crossing borders was a pain, or buying a Spanish washer and trying to import it into Germany). But somewhere along 2000 to 2005...they ran out of things to fix, and just started childish problems to fix (like limiting vacuum power, or wattage for tea-kettles, or defining bananas are).
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