L’UE, un anno dopo i referenda
19/7/2006Un mio articolo per ISN-Security Watch cerca di fare un bilancio delle conseguenze del doppio “no” francese e olandese al Trattato costituzionale, un anno dopo i referenda.
[…] one year after the political earthquake that rocked the EU, the bloc’s political parties and observers are committed to identifying major trends - a commitment that has led to the discovery that, notwithstanding the hard blow thrown by the French and Dutch vote, the somewhat catastrophic predictions of many pundits made in the immediate aftermath of the Constitutional Treaty’s rejection turned out to be incorrect.
Certainly, the most ambitious plans for the EU have probably been the real victims of the failed referenda. The French-backed Europe puissance (the goal of building a European political and strategic superpower) or the British-sponsored liberal and pro-deregulation agenda failed to gather any real momentum. However, EU leaders are optimistic on rapidly achieving more pragmatic and realistic policies on more specific issues. And in this respect, Europe’s pre-2005 characteristics have not changed so much.
Sul risultato dei referenda del 2005, la deputata britannica Gisela Stuart si è espressa in modo incisivo [leggi tutto: (more…)
