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Subject: Secret plan for EU 'Superstate'
Date: Saturday, December 16, 2000 7:28 AM
Secret plan for EU 'Superstate'
Dec 6 2000
Source: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,47203,00.html
BY MARTIN FLETCHER AND PHILIP WEBSTER: Berlin and Rome expose Blair to new
line of attack GERMANY and Italy delivered a serious blow to Tony Blair on
the eve of the Nice summit yesterday by calling for yet another round of
negotiations to achieve an even closer European Union. In a confidential
joint paper sent to France, which holds the EU's rotating Presidency, Berlin
and Rome said the summit should agree to hold an inter-governmental
conference (IGC) in 2004 "with a view to the further development of European
integration."
The Times has obtained the paper, which shows that even before the Nice
treaty is signed leading EU members are looking for ways to increase
integration in the next one.
It immediately refueled Eurosceptic claims that the EU is on the road to
becoming a "Superstate." Francis Maude, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, called
the document a "bombshell that shows the true agenda at the heart of Europe."
He claimed that the Government was "privately happy with this agenda, but
publicly denies it is happening."
The Government, however, insisted that the paper was merely a document
for discussion - "any member State can produce a document for consideration
in an IGC and that's what the Germans and Italians have done."
The paper plays into the hands of Eurosceptics by fuelling the
impression that integration is a relentless one-way process. However, many of
Germany's preliminary ideas, including stopping the flow of powers from
national governments to Brussels, are strongly welcomed by London, which in
recent days has softened its position over a future IGC.
The new paper surfaced on the day that Peter Mandelson, the Cabinet's
leading pro-European, said that the EU's founding fathers' dream of an ever
closer union was now dead. He insisted that the Nice treaty would confirm
that Europe was now a "pragmatic venture."
Mr. Blair has previously insisted that such a conference should not
happen until after enlargement of the EU has begun. Yesterday his official
spokesman said that, provided it was not a hurdle to enlargement, the
proposal could be looked at.
The paper gives the Conservatives further ammunition by saying the IGC
should consider whether to make the EU's controversial new Charter of
Fundamental Rights legally binding - an idea the Government opposes.
It says the IGC should consider "a simplification of the treaties with a
view to achieving improved legibility and clarity." British Eurosceptics have
long regarded "treaty simplification" - which would create a separate
document for the EU's core principles - as a back-door route to a European
constitution.
The paper also says that the proposed IGC should define the relative
powers of Brussels and the national Governments, an idea Mr. Blair advocated
in October and something Germany's 16 regional governments are insisting on
as a way of limiting Brussels' powers.
Britain accepts that the demand for another IGC in 2004 has become
crucial for Germany as the Nice summit approaches, but its proposed timing
will be another source of controversy. Mr. Blair said in October that it
should not begin before the first new members from central Europe have joined
the EU. The German-Italian paper says that the candidate countries should be
involved in extensive pre-IGC discussions and that "the conclusion of the
2004 conference is not a pre-condition for the accession of new members."
Those discussions should also include national Parliaments, MEPs,
academics, business, and civil society. Belgium, which inherits the EU
Presidency next July, wants to set the process in train with a declaration
next December to be followed by a convention comprising national, European
and candidate country politicians. The IGC would then formalize the results.
The Government is loath to trigger "three years of endless speculation"
by agreeing at all to a new IGC at this point, but recognises that the German
Chancellor needs to set a date for domestic political reasons.
Europe's heads of government will now have to haggle over the wording of
the summit's final communiqu� on the post-Nice agenda, on top of all the
other intensely difficult issues they must resolve.
Mr. Blair will be determined to change the key paragraph of the
German-Italian proposal, which says the 2004 IGC should explore "the further
development of the process of European integration." Government officials
acknowledged that it was not a felicitous phrase, but said that the problem
was primarily semantic as those words had different connotations in Germany.
On the Charter of Rights, which is to be "proclaimed" in Nice but not
incorporated into EU law, one British source said: "We will have to make it
clear there's no question of it ever in the history of mankind becoming a
legal binding text." Officials said the Government could accept the
simplification of the treaties to make them more accessible, but not if the
idea was to produce a constitution.
But Mr. Maude said that the paper exposed the Government's "breathtaking
willingness to mislead the British people." "On the day Peter Mandelson
claims European integration is over, plans are exposed to take the EU further
down the integrationist road." "At least other politicians throughout the EU
have the courage to argue their convictions. Labour's are hiding their real
agenda. Nice is a staging post on the road to an EU Superstate. Why can't
they be honest? "Other countries are happy to talk about deeper integration.
Peter Mandelson denies it will happen. Other countries are happy to talk
about a European army. Robin Cook denies there is one. Other countries are
happy to talk about the Euro leading to political integration. Gordon Brown
denies it will happen. On Europe this Government is in denial."
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