BARASSO WARNS POLAND ON TREATY

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Barroso warns Poland on treaty, Warsaw talks tough By Paul Taylor
Tue Jun 19, 6:46 PM ET

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission warned Poland on Tuesday it could lose money and support if it blocks a deal to reform European Union institutions at a summit this week, but Warsaw vowed to fight on. Britain meanwhile set out last-minute demands to water down the EU's common foreign and security policy in a way that diplomats said would largely emasculate the role of a proposed European foreign minister. Poland has demanded a change in the voting reform designed to ease decision-making in the enlarged Union, saying the new system would give big states, especially Germany, too much power at Warsaw's expense.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the new central and east European member states who joined the EU in 2004 and this year needed to demonstrate that the 27-nation bloc was still capable of taking difficult decisions. I believe it would be in their interest for them to show that their membership of the EU is not making the union's life more difficult, Barroso said, two days before a crucial summit on the treaty to replace the defunct EU constitution. Failure to agree on a mandate to negotiate a reform treaty would set back all EU business and weaken the mechanisms of cohesion and solidarity, he said, using two EU terms for financial transfers from rich to poor member states.

Please avoid appearing as blocking. This is not intelligent, this is not in your interest, Barroso said.In a swipe at British demands for exemptions from more EU policies, Barroso also said opt-outs could not become the rule in the Union, or else the bloc would eventually fall apart.

EQUAL TREATMENT

Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said his country was only seeking equal treatment, complaining that the German EU presidency had taken all other countries' concerns into account except the Polish position.This (Poland's position) will be defended with full ruthlessness, there is no plan B, he told a news conference.
Germany circulated a highly complex draft mandate to representatives of the 27 EU leaders, aimed at launching negotiations on a slimmed-down treaty to replace the constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005.Polish negotiator Marek Cichocki later claimed progress, saying the Germans had for the first time officially acknowledged in a footnote to the negotiating mandate that two countries had concerns with the proposed voting system.This footnote is a first step in the right direction. Berlin for the first time admitted there is a problem with the voting system, Cichocki told Polish reporters after a five-hour meeting of the so-called sherpas in Brussels.

However, an EU diplomat present at the meeting said the German text merely noted that two delegations wished to raise the issue at this week's summit and gave no commitment that it would be on the agenda of negotiations for a new treaty.Several EU leaders voiced doubts about whether the summit on Thursday and Friday would be able to reach agreement given Poland's resistance on the voting issue.Currently there is no proposal on the table that we know will go through, but we have a couple of days to make that happen, Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said after a meeting of Nordic leaders in Punkaharju, eastern Finland.

Barroso said failure to agree this week would damage the EU's credibility, and weaken its voice on issues such as globalization, energy security and climate change. Only the Czechs have lent Poland some support, while the other 25 member states insist the voting reform must stay. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has vowed he will not allow Europe a greater say over Britain's judicial system, foreign policy or its tax and benefits arrangements. British negotiators said London not only wanted separate legal arrangements for European foreign policy but wanted to prevent the EU foreign minister, whose title would be downgraded, from chairing meetings of national foreign ministers or speaking at the United Nations, except with permission from Security Council members.

Furthermore, London wanted the EU's proposed foreign service to be entirely inter-governmental, without including the European Commission's 3,500-strong external action service. Gordon Brown, who will take over as prime minister when Blair steps down on June 27, joined Blair for a teleconference on the treaty with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday. Presidential spokesman David Martinon said the three leaders had reviewed their red lines. Sarkozy told the Britons France wanted a treaty that is not left with nothing in it, he said. (Additional reporting by Terhi Kinnunen, Punkaharju, Finland, Adam Jasser and Chris Borowski in Warsaw; Adrian Croft in London and Andras Gergely in Budapest, Emmanuel Jarry in Paris)

EU treaty rifts remain after deal on name and symbols
18.06.2007 - 09:26 CET | By Mark Beunderman

EUOBSERVER / LUXEMBOURG - EU foreign ministers have agreed on how the new EU treaty should be presented – it should not be called a constitution, and not contain symbols such as an EU flag – but key divisions on the substance of the text remain unresolved.Of course we don't have a guarantee of the success we are all hoping for and that we are all intensively working for will actually come about, German foreign minister Frank Walter Steinmeier said after talks with EU counterparts in Luxembourg on Sunday (17 June).

But he indicated that progress had been made, explaining all 18 states which ratified the original draft constitution had now agreed to drop the term constitution.Dutch foreign minister Maxime Verhagen, whose country together with France in 2005 rejected the constitution in a referendum, said it looks like the constitution will be definitely off the table on Thursday, with EU leaders set to tackle the disputed document at a summit later this week. A new look constitution will simply be an amending treaty changing the current Nice Treaty in a number of ways while avoiding the constitutional terminology which sceptics say make the EU look like a state.

The Luxembourg meeting also produced agreement on the scrapping of EU symbols such as the 12-star flag and EU anthem from the 2004 text.All agreed that the symbols can be taken out of the text – except for the euro, said Luxembourg's foreign minister Jean Asselborn.

Divisions

But deep rifts remain on key parts of the treaty that go beyond mere names and symbols and which concern the division of power between the EU and its member states.
The status of the Charter of Fundamental Rights – a document listing citizens rights and fully integrated into the draft constitution – is the subject of strong controversy, with the UK in particular opposing a charter that is legally binding.
This is extremely difficult, Mr Asselborn said, indicating it was unacceptable for the majority of member states that the binding character of the charter be given up.

We raised this as a prime issue to people when we explained the constitution, he said, referring to Luxembourg's referendum on the EU constitution which resulted in a yes in 2005.The legally binding status of the charter also figured in a list of demands put forward by France and Spain on Sunday. According to a Spanish diplomat, the list amounted to the substance of a new look treaty. The diplomat also emphasized the importance of France – having rejected the constitution – and Spain – having approved it by referendum – showing a common front on the issue.Apart from a binding rights charter, the Franco-Spanish wish-list list also includes a number of other topics which are still controversial.

Paris and Madrid seek the scrapping of a number of national vetoes as proposed in the draft constitution. This is strongly opposed by London which is not yet prepared to give up its veto in justice and police matters.France's president Nicolas Sarkozy and Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Zapatero will also defend the so-called double majority voting system, which is heavily opposed by Poland.

The Polish question

The voting weights issue is seen as a major stumbling block for an agreement at this week's EU summit, with Warsaw proposing its own alternative voting system which would give itself more power relative to Germany.Sunday's gathering in Luxembourg did not make the issue any less pressing with the German EU presidency keeping it off the ministers' agenda. We have maintained our position, said Poland's Anna Fotyga after the talks.

Other outstanding issues left by foreign ministers to their political bosses include whether the EU should have a single legal personality – enabling it to sign international agreements – and whether its powers in foreign policy should be bound to legal limits, with London again seen as a main player in this area. EUobserver

Finally! The full exposé of North American agenda
Book documents plans for merger of U.S., Mexico, Canada
June 20, 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – Resistance to enforcing immigration laws and border security by political elites in the nation's capital is, at least in part, a result of plans to promote political, social and economic integration of the U.S., Mexico and Canada, charges a new book, The Late Great USA. It's the only context in which the current immigration travesty makes sense, says Jerome Corsi, co-author of the best-selling Unfit for Command,and it must be stopped. Millions of Americans, shocked by the Senate grand bargain on immigration that gives the precious gift of legalization to millions of illegal aliens and felons, have taken to the phones to demand no amnesty. But, claims Corsi, there's far more to the current Senate bill – a story documented in shocking detail in The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada, published by WND Books.

Prior to this 'grand bargain' cooked up in a backroom by our so-called representatives, many people had never heard of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, yet several amendments in the Senate bill are designed specifically to further the SPP's agenda, explains Corsi. In The Late Great USA, Corsi shows how the SPP, an agreement signed in 2005 by Bush, Paul Martin of Canada and Vicente Fox of Mexico, is nothing less than a full-frontal assault on American sovereignty. This aim to create a North American Union between the United States, Mexico and Canada is the real reason behind comprehensive immigration reform.Says Corsi, Bush's goal to create a North American Union – with no borders, a shared currency, and utterly no voice for average Americans in their own futures – is the real reason he won't enforce immigration laws. Utilizing thousands of documents released as a result of the Freedom of Information Act, The Late Great USA shows how unelected bureaucrats in faceless agencies such as the Department of Commerce have been given the power to foist the NAU on the American public incrementally.

The European Union, which now holds millions of voiceless, voteless Europeans in thrall to a heedless Brussels bureaucracy, was put into place little by little over a 50-year period, Corsi writes, not by the citizens of the member states, but by elitists who disguised their goal of a regional government.

In The Late Great USA, Corsi details:

1. The tactics unelected globalist business leaders, bureaucrats and taxpayer-funded academics are using to lead to the merger of the United States with Mexico and Canada

2. How the state of Texas is seizing millions of acres of privately owned land so foreign investors can cash in on a NAFTA super-highway from Mexico to the Canadian border.

3. How China, through its proxies in Mexico, plans to bring the world's sole superpower to its knees economically – without firing a shot. A North American Union would not just be the end of America as we know it, claims Corsi, but the beginning of an EU-like nightmare – a bureaucratic coup d'etat foisted upon millions of Americans without their knowledge or consent. The Late Great USA is a meticulously researched story of deceit, the chapters of which are being written in secret. For Corsi, The Late Great USA is nothing less than a wake-up call to the American people.

The Security and Prosperity Partnership is not just unconstitutional, but an act of treason at the highest levels, he says. Anyone who cares about the future of this country – our children’s future – must act now against a North American Union and the underhanded way in which our sovereignty is being compromised, one illegal alien at a time.Corsi, a WND columnist, received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972 and has written many books and articles, including the No. 1 New York Times best-seller, Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry. Corsi's most recent book was authored with Michael Evans: Showdown with Nuclear Iran. Corsi's other recent books include Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil, which he co-authored with WND columnist Craig. R. Smith, and Atomic Iran.