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Monday 14 January 2008

EU Treaty "debate"

I read at EU Referendum that an Early Day Motion (EDM) has been put down stating "This House notes that the second reading of the European Union (Amendment) Bill is set down for one week from this EDM, on 21st January 2008, and therefore asks the Government to immediately publish the short and long titles of the Bill, and to set out an analysis of full text of the Treaty, including its protocols, declarations and similar material; and to immediately publish a note of any implications of the Treaty which are additional to the existing provisions of Community or Union Treaties currently in force, or which place further obligations on the Crown, Courts and Parliament of the United Kingdom; and to set out the nature and scope of any amendments that are allowable to the Bill during its passage through parliament and to set out if the currently stated objective of the European Union of "ever closer union" will be mentioned in the either the Bill or the Treaty in any way whatsoever; and whether there will be any change, as a result of the Treaty, to the provisions of European Communities Act 1972 Clause 2 : 1 relating to the powers of Crown or Parliament."



What are the chances of the Labour government taking a blind bit of notice?


Do read the rest of the article and wonder what happened to British democracy.

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