Back in the USSR for the EU's latest members At the heart of Europe

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: June 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

What would it take to convince you that the EU is anti- democratic? It has brushed aside "no" votes in Denmark and Ireland. It has refused to accept the result of an Austrian general election. Now it is proposing legislation which could bar Eurosceptic parties from the European Parliament.

For several weeks, I and my fellow members of the constitutional affairs committee have been chewing over a draft "Statute of European Political Parties". The establishment of state-funded pan-European parties is something that federalists desperately want. After all, they say, we are about to adopt a new ...

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