How do you stop a new EU treaty?

[TheStinger]

Answer

Give the UK people a vote on it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3195016.stm

This could be interesting.

ONTOH it may just be a ploy so the UK doesn't have to concede to much. If the govt get what they want- no referndum if they don't the whole thing will be put to the vote, which will be lost and the whole treaty will be scuppered

[Az]

Why would you like to stop a new EU treaty?

[laurentius]

Get 10 000000 people to sign a petition, curse and later assassinate all pro new constitution campainers and politicians, nuke France and Belgium, throw salt to the ruins of EU parliament, convert to islam, burn yourself, contact aliens to destroy the earth....

Nah just kidding theres no way anyone can stop it

have a nice day

[TheStinger]

Well I didn't say I did.

[Az]

Go EU.

[TheStinger]

Originally posted by laurentius
Get 10 000000 people to sign a petition, curse and later assassinate all pro new constitution campainers and politicians, nuke France and Belgium, throw salt to the ruins of EU parliament, convert to islam, burn yourself, contact aliens to destroy the earth....

Nah just kidding theres no way anyone can stop it

have a nice day

It would stop it, because these things have to be unanimously agreed. If it is not agreed by every member no treaty.

[Spiffor]

New EU treaties have the bad habit not to be 'stopped', because the politician-in-chief of each state is the one who decides. If the politician-in-chief is against (or his population is against), he'll get some concessions on other matters as a price of his agreement.

When the people is considered too hostile, the politician-in-chief may either stall the agreement (like what the UK is doing with the Euro - but you too will put your queen's face on Euro coins eventually), or it may simply disregard the public opinion: just see how many referendums there were for the Amsterdam treaty

[DanS]

Why not put it up to a vote no matter what happens? Is there something wrong with people voting or something?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by DanS
Why not put it up to a vote no matter what happens? Is there something wrong with people voting or something?

In the EU, yes.

There is a joke running: "if the EU applied to be a member of the EU, it would be rejected because of its lacking democracy"

[VetLegion]

There is a joke running: "if the EU applied to be a member of the EU, it would be rejected because of its lacking democracy"

Ha! I knew it!

Anyway, what is the solution? Strengthening the Eropean Parliament?

[Az]

Yay EU
Boo Democracy

[The Andy-Man]

Tell the americans that there are weapons of mass destruction in spain. When they conquered spain, tell em they moved em into france....

[el freako]

But there are already WMD's in France, specifically nuclear weapons

[VetLegion]

But the WMD's never were the reason for action anyway.

I suggest mining the north sea, that's where the battleground is going to be

[The Andy-Man]

Originally posted by el freako
But there are already WMD's in France, specifically nuclear weapons

though true, it dosn't matter much. Bush is a silly person, the WMD line shoudl work to make him get rid of eurpe.