Haloface
11-16-2007, 03:11 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7095657.stm
- Ignore for a moment that the new Foreign Secretary is just introducing a new idea because that's what new people do.
The EU as a trans-political idea, spreading certain Western ideas and goals to desperate areas?
An interesting notion, using the EU as a carrot to make potentially troublesome countries potentially good. There could be an argument that it's worked in Turkey, where they've worked hard to meet with a number of requirements, economically and politically, in the hopes of membership.
So if this is the direct opposite to the EU as a superstate, as some have called its increasing expansion in the past decade, how on earth will it help to stabilize the already implosive tendencies of the current members? If a constitution can't even be agreed on, how will enlargement ever help to stabilize an already unweildly bloc?
I stand by what I've always said: before expanding, we need to sort the centre out first, as a secure and bound power, a model for the rest of the EU and for future members, not through constitutions but bound by treaties, more a league than a federatation, based on principles of economic, legal and military cooperation, not of some sort of cultural-political union, enshrined in some holy constitution.
- Ignore for a moment that the new Foreign Secretary is just introducing a new idea because that's what new people do.
The EU as a trans-political idea, spreading certain Western ideas and goals to desperate areas?
An interesting notion, using the EU as a carrot to make potentially troublesome countries potentially good. There could be an argument that it's worked in Turkey, where they've worked hard to meet with a number of requirements, economically and politically, in the hopes of membership.
So if this is the direct opposite to the EU as a superstate, as some have called its increasing expansion in the past decade, how on earth will it help to stabilize the already implosive tendencies of the current members? If a constitution can't even be agreed on, how will enlargement ever help to stabilize an already unweildly bloc?
I stand by what I've always said: before expanding, we need to sort the centre out first, as a secure and bound power, a model for the rest of the EU and for future members, not through constitutions but bound by treaties, more a league than a federatation, based on principles of economic, legal and military cooperation, not of some sort of cultural-political union, enshrined in some holy constitution.