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Posted by: Arthur B. (Friday 3 June 2005, 10:04 PM)

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I'm Dutch and with about 60% of my fellow country men we voted NO to the EU constitution not because we're against an united Europa but mainly because the gap between EU politicians and EU civilians is too large. Thus leading to badly informed (influenced by the commercially motivated) politicians that are out of touch with the civilian population who thus see their opinion not or not enough represented within the ranks of those that make decisions.

In other words, the wrong people have too much uncontrolled power in the EU at the moment and are influenced by the wrong people as well. That has to change before Europa can unite or else Europa is just going to be a playground for big (overseas) organizations.

Until then there are still plenty of (political) possibilities to establish European spanning agreements that are truly benificial for Europa as a whole but with the added bonus that a wrong decision by some badly informed and clueless Brussel sprout can more easily be rejected or adjusted on an individual country basis.

In short: EU, first get your act together and then lead the way.

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