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What has changed in 2 years?
Wednesday, 05 September 2007

The new Constitutional Treaty ensures the new Europe can work effectively, and that Britain keeps control of key national interests like foreign policy, taxation, social security and defence.The Treaty sets out what the EU can do and what it cannot. It strengthens the voice of national parliaments and governments in EU affairs. It is a good treaty for Britain and for the new Europe.We will put it to the British people in a referendum and campaign whole-heartedly for a ‘Yes’ vote to keep Britain a leading nation in Europe. Labour Party Manifesto 2005
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Gordon Brown Faces Growing Referendum Rebellion in UK
Wednesday, 29 August 2007
EU Observer and various other sources report that UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing an increasing rebellion among his own Labour MPs over his decision not to hold a referendum on the new EU treaty. Some sources put the number of rebels at 120 MPs. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats have refused to rule out a referendum on the “Reform Treaty”
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EU Leaders as Bond Villains
Friday, 24 August 2007
The Economist of August 11th has a brilliantly incisive think piece in the Charlemagne column which compares Europe’s leading politicians with the evil geniuses of the James Bond movies, marking out the one crucial difference that 007’s nemeses did NOT reveal their plans for global domination until after they thought Bond was facing imminent death. Bizarrely, however the European political elite have declared proudly that the EU’s big new idea is to hoodwink its citizens by making the reworked Constitutional Treaty unintelligible and unreadable and by smuggling it past the voters without referendums.
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UK Referendum Revolt
Thursday, 26 July 2007
The Telegraph reports that a group of around 40 Labour MPs in the UK, including Gisela Stuart - a former member of the convention which drafted the original Constitution, are considering a backbench campaign in favour of a referendum on the new Reform Treaty in the first real revolt in Gordon Brown’s premiership.
 
The Treaty…En Francais
Thursday, 26 July 2007
Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, for your reading pleasure, the first draft of the new Reform Treaty that was launched at the General Affairs Council meeting earlier this week in Brussels.It runs to a dainty 277 pages, weighing in at nearly 3kgs and is made up of three parts:
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