For the creation of an EU-wide constituency - commentaires

For the creation of an EU-wide constituency

So that's it. After already 4 years of discussions, instead of adopting or rejecting the proposal, MEPs have decided to put off their vote and send the report back to the Constitutional affairs committee (http://euobserver.com/9/32601). Which will have to reconsider its proposal before a final vote in plenary that would happen in late 2011 (according to A. Duff), or maybe ad Kalendas Graecas. So, they are really making everything not to vote on this issue.

This pan-European constituency litterally makes everybody creep out, including the weak underbelly of the European Parliament, made of MEPs that are mainly caring about their pension.

What exactly is their problem with this proposal ? It's impossible to tell. MEPs just don't want it, they are getting cold feet, but they have no argument apart from being afraid.

European activists need to become more offensive on this issue, to condemn the Parliament's attitude, and to show that compromise solutions exist, otherwise this report will never be examined by the Parliament, let alone ratified by Member States.

For the creation of an EU-wide constituency

Hi Aymeric L.

Thanks a lot for your comment ! Andrew Duff spoke to JEFers at the Jour Fixe in Brussels on 1 June saying that the proposal would need more time to ripe in the minds of many MEPs. If it will be voted down now, we are unlikely to see another attempt during this or even the following legislature.

Together with other youth organisations, JEF will continue to actively galvanise support for this cause. Encouraging signs are found already in an article of the EP magazine that quoted the Open Letter : http://www.theparliament.com/latest-news/article/newsarticle/meps-set-to-vote-on-radical-shake-up-of-eu-parliament-elections/.

Hope more will follow in the following month !

For the creation of an EU-wide constituency

It seems that the final vote on Andrew Duff's proposals will not intervene on 7-8 June, but on 4 July. The Parliament has probably -once more- postponed this resolution, which has already been adjourned a dozen of times since Duff took charge of it in 2007. Do we have to expect the final vote to not happen in 2011, but in 2013, 2014, or later ?

It's hard to understand what kind of deep reasons make MEP drag their feet for so long on the issue of the pan-European constituency, whereas they bustle about launching a whole treaty revision for 18 useless new seats, among which 2 non elected ones.