Zacht Ei - Rouvoet rebuts Barosso

Wednesday, June 1, 2005

Rouvoet rebuts Barosso

EC President Barroso made his familiar point again, about how nine countries have ratified the constitution already.

André Rouvoet of the ChristenUnie just pointed out the fallacy in this argument: only three of those countries have put the constitution to a vote. And two of them rejected it.

Two countries that are, by the way, founding members of the EU.

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Thanks for posting this info. . .I didn't realize that 6 of the 7 countries that ratified the EU constitution didn't do so by popular vote (Spain being the only one to vote).

Here is the breakdown according to Yahoo.com

Countries that have rejected the charter: France, Netherlands

Countries that have ratified the charter:

BY REFERENDUM: Spain

BY PARLIAMENT: Lithuania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia

Countries still to decide:

BY REFERENDUM: Luxembourg, Denmark, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Britain

BY PARLIAMENT: Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Malta, Sweden

Czech Republic hasn't decided whether to hold referendum or parliamentary vote.

miira (ip:209.63.165.60) 1 June 2005 - 22:45 uur

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