Published Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 12:26
by
Maitresinh
in European democracy & diversity (359 views and 6 comments)
Note de la
rédaction : un sympathisant du PSE nous a envoyée une « lettre
ouverte » qui serait intégrée à une nouvelle section de
cafebabel.com, une magasine européen en ligne. Cette nouvelle
section du site traiterait le thème des élections européennes de
2009.
Pour un coup d’état démocratique européen en 2009 !
En juin 2009, pour la septième fois dans l’histoire de l’Europe, plus de 350 millions de citoyens voteront pour nommer leurs représentants au Parlement européen.
Trente ans se sont écoulés depuis les premières élections de 1979. Trente ans durant lesquels l’Europe et le monde ont beaucoup changé. Le Parlement européen lui aussi, de simple organe consultatif, a acquis d’année en année un pouvoir croissant au sein d’une Europe toujours plus unie.
Institution démocratique par excellence, exprimant la volonté des citoyens européens, le Parlement demeure pourtant dans l’ombre du Conseil des ministres, assemblée qui détient le dernier mot, privant l’Europe d’un pouvoir exécutif pleinement démocratique et de...
read morePublished Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 19:26
by
yoan.abiven 
in EU in the world (481 views and 0 comments)
I had a
dream… That those populist ideas on which migration policies are
based in some EU Member States, starting by my own (France), be
soon penalized in the name of the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Is this a dream or a matter of reason?
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Published Monday, March 3, 2008 at 14:30
by
yoan.abiven
in European democracy & diversity (946 views and 4 comments)
At long
last, France has joined the group of sensible nations to have
ratified the Lisbon treaty!
This time though, it chose not to risk asking the French people
either through a vote or a referendum. Thus President Sarkozy
kept his electoral promise of choosing to go the parliamentary
way. And as if nothing had changed since the French rejection of
the constitutional treaty in 2005, all the 'narrow-minded
Frenchies' of back then rose up in arms more or less exactly as
last time. The campaign for the French presidential elections and
the 'forced' bipartisanship of that particular moment in time had
silenced them for a while.
The Socialist Party lost itself in its own contradictions,
thereby illustrating the old saying that if there is no solution,
then maybe there is no problem. This may account for the rebirth
of a true political centre in France. The Left has at least
remained united on one thing: it called for a new referendum,
some of its members so that they can relive the great feeling of
having said yes the first time, the others, of having said no, I
guess, but beyond that all Socialists have remained good friends
and comrades.
The tricky thing about this whole story is that those in favour
of a referendum are not totally wrong from the perspective of a
good democratic...
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