Niezle... Jak widac integracja UE postapila dalej niz
podejrzewalem... Unia przyswoila jak widac dorobek prawny ZSRR i
Chin Ludowych... Teraz brakuje tylko obozow pracy...
WD
P.S. Czy moge prosic o odniesienie do informacji zrodlowej?
roman kafel wrote:
>
> ISSUE 2112Wednesday 7 March 2001
> Euro-court outlaws criticism of EU
> By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels
>
> European Court of Justice
> Now it's blasphemy to mock Europe [Dec '00] - The Spectator
> Criticism of the EU [27 Nov '00] - The Stationery Office
> Address by Bernard Connolly [29 Mar '96] - Centre Party of Sweden
> Bernard Connolly - Bahnhof Internet
> Star Chamber, Court of - Encyclopedia Britannica
> Attainder - New Advent
> Sacheverell, Henry [seditious libel] - The Columbia Encyclopedia
> European Court of Human Rights
>
> THE European Court of Justice ruled yesterday that the European Union can
> lawfully suppress political criticism of its institutions and of leading
> figures, sweeping aside English Common Law and 50 years of European
> precedents on civil liberties.
> The EU's top court found that the European Commission was entitled to sack
> Bernard Connolly, a British economist dismissed in 1995 for writing a
> critique of European monetary integration entitled The Rotten Heart of
> Europe.
> The ruling stated that the commission could restrict dissent in order to
> "protect the rights of others" and punish individuals who "damaged the
> institution's image and reputation". The case has wider implications for
> free
> speech that could extend to EU citizens who do not work for the Brussels
> bureaucracy.
> The court called the Connolly book "aggressive, derogatory and insulting",
> taking particular umbrage at the author's suggestion that Economic and
> Monetary Union was a threat to democracy, freedom and "ultimately peace".
> However, it dropped an argument put forward three months ago by the
> advocate-general, Damaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, which implied that Mr
> Connolly's criticism of the EU was akin to extreme blasphemy, and therefore
> not protected speech.
> Mr Connolly, who has been told to pay the European Commission's legal costs,
> said the proceedings did not amount to a fair hearing. He said: "We're back
> to the Star Chamber and Acts of Attainder: the rights of defendants are not
> respected or guaranteed in any way; the offence of seditious libel has been
> resurrected."
> Mr Colomer wrote in his opinion last November that a landmark British case
> on
> free speech had "no foundation or relevance" in European law, suggesting
> that
> the European Court was unwilling to give much consideration to British legal
> tradition.
> Mr Connolly now intends to take his case to Europe's other court, the non-EU
> European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
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