EUROPEAN UNION ATTACKS SOVEREIGNTY OF MEMBER STATES.
Threats to “suspend” member states who co-operate with the USA.
Dateline 29th November 2005
EUObserver reported on 28th November that the European Union has threatened to “suspend” member states who co-operate with the USA.
Justice commissioner Franco Frattini said that EU member states hosting secret CIA jails could face sanctions if the allegations are found to be true. Speaking to journalists in Berlin on Monday (28 November), Mr Frattini said the measures could include “serious consequences, including the suspension of the right to vote in the council”
The concerns about secret prisons in eastern Europe were triggered by reports published in the Washington Post and statements made by prominent NGO Human Rights Watch a few weeks ago. Poland and Romania are suspected of co-operating with the United States – although have both denied the claims.
This extraordinary arrogance of an unelected European Union Commissar daring to threaten the constitutional rights of EU members – both inside the EU in terms of voting rights and outside the EU in terms of their national sovereignty – takes the EU’s presumed political imperialism to new heights. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the issue it is no business of the EU Bureaucracy to threaten other countries in the exercise of their own foreign policy.
Needless to say it is the German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (formerly head of the German Secret Service) who is taking the aggressive lead – by raising the issue at his meeting with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington. This is just one of many points of friction – on Iraq, international trade, interference in South America, the Middle East, the Galileo satellite system, Germany’s nuclear ambitions, Spains’ support for the anti American Marxist leader of Venezuela to name but a few – which characterise the growing anti Americanism of the new Euro-State.
