Monthly Archives: January 2007

In the EU we voted NO against the constitution and there is little energy spend in discussing it any further. Even although we have to make a decision wether we will accept one eventually or not.
How different then is the interest and discussion regarding the constitution on the other side of the Atlantic!

Disputes over the federal constitution have been intense there for years, especially recently when the president was asked to defend the Bill of Rights, Guantanamo and wiretapping.

I understand that the US constitution has actively been used for hunderds of years, under a different party system, which doesn’t make it fully comparable with the proposed EU constitution. However problems with habeas corpus exist with the proposed EU constitution too [a counter-argument].

Also the No-voters of the EU constitution demanded that the European Parlement should have the right to propose laws, just like the US house of Representatives . For the record, the proposed EU constitution doesn’t offer this. However isn’t this working towards a federal EU? The development of the EU chairman into a president for that matter would similarly provide new “trias-politica” conflicts.

I think it would be a good thing if the EU constitution discussion would reach the news a bit more often.
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