brussels - goodbye to the veto...
WORKERS, OCTOBER 2003 ISSUE
On 17 September the European Commission announced that it is time to abandon the existing national vetoes on budgetary matters - that is, on all decisions about taxing and spending. It wants instead to install a system of majority voting.
Even the new, draft EU Constitution had not proposed so drastic a step, but as usual the EU is in a constant process of tearing up its previous commitments and promises. Consequently, all Blair's claims that budgetary matters would always be safe in his hands are so much worthless verbiage.
The Commission also wants unanimity to be ended for any future changes to EU treaties. So all member nations would be tied into legally binding arrangements over which they had no control.
After all this, how can anyone believe that the EU is about internationalism? Its clear intent is the destruction of nations' independence.