This was my first contribution – idealistic indeed – to the debate on the draft European Constitution.
I got only a few reactions from UK. The Britons felt that the draft constitution was going too far, thus affecting in depth the sovereignity of the nations. Exactly the opposite of what I perceived when reading the draft constitution. They expressed always their concern with respect to the loss of part or the totality of their personality, independence, democracy, sovereignity…

A single gentleman from Lithuania answered my contribution stating that the parallelism with the URSS was not applicable. Probably he was right: in the European Union the situation may be much worse indeed.

I wrote a second contribution where I explained that, having spent most of my life abroad (with respect to Italy), I had had the opportunity to learn to libe behaving as a true European.
Referring to the years I spent in Denmark, in France, in Germany, in Poland, I concluded: “…this is the way to love…to live a country.” I thought this would be a convincing move. No reaction at all.

Let’s have a look at the other Europeans.
French contributions to the debate expressed mostly concern about the concept of (national?) freedom of political opinions within the European Union that did not appear to be sufficiently evidentiated and guaranted in the proposed text.
Spanish contributions generally expressed deep concern about the future of the forests and woods ignored in the constitution (!!??).
Italian contributions, you can imagine, were mostly based on Vatican’s position about the Christian roots of Europe.
I commented the contribution of a Belgian gentleman who expressed concern about the lack of definition of the boundaries of Europe. In reality the boundaries of Europe may extend to the American continent (Greenland being part of Denmark) and to the Urals, if some of the Caucasic republics will join the Union (we are already speaking of Turkey, Ukraina, may be Moldova), the most important boundary being the one with Switzerland.
I feel that the boundaries of Europe are “physically” irrelevant, provided that a true European feeling and a common way of living the democracy will pervade the inhabitants of the Union.

De profundis is the prayer for the defuncts.
Italy and Germany both attach much importance to the “political government”of the regions and provinces. These constitute the most important basic cell (although at a microscopic level) of a European structure. The Bulgarians and the Portugueses will be certainly interested in knowing that the Venices and Lombardia are steered by the Lega and Latium by the Leftists!
Europe’s representatives have often spoken against other European countries (Prodi docet; the declaration against Israel; no early warnings…yes early warnings; we love Russia…but we prefer Ukraina, etc.)
France is probably going to vote the Constitution down.
Norway and Iceland are within Schengen but are not members of the Europe Union.
The Balkans? Silence, please! For the time being Slovenia is enough.
European rules reflect the interests of the countries represented by the most efficient politicians disregarding very often the needs of minor (or less representative) populations.
Economically speaking Europe loves to be clear: the famous ratio of 3% shall be kept! With the following results:
Germany is out of range
France is out of range
The Netherlands are out of range
Italy most probably will be out of range
Greece has submitted phony calculations.

It’s a great score!





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