Europe gets my vote
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1249360,00.html
As a Thatcherite, I support this constitution, which puts power back
where it belongs
Niall Ferguson
Tuesday June 29, 2004
The Guardian
Is the new European constitution a blueprint for a United States of
Europe - a fully fledged federation like the US on the other side of
the Atlantic? Many of its continental proponents would say that is
precisely the aim of the "treaty establishing a constitution" for the
EU agreed by European leaders at Brussels last week.
Unfortunately for the constitution, that is a view currently shared by
the large proportion of British voters who have no desire to become
just one of 25 states in a USE. If they vote against ratification in
the referendum Tony Blair has promised, then one of two things will
happen. Either the constitution will be a dead letter and the enlarged
EU will muddle along under old rules. Or - as a growing number of
British voters seem to wish - Britain will leave the EU. Suddenly, a
great deal hinges on Blair's ability to persuade voters that the new
constitution is not a federalist document.
Niall Ferguson
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