Europe, particularly Germany and France, will not be able to articulate a common foreign policy without a constitution. How can Germany and France push the U.S. within the United Nations if they have no way to drive an EU unified foreign policy?
No mutual defense seems possible since Finland, Sweden, Austria, and Ireland will not break their neutrality as nations…this they announced on December 6, 2003. If there is no mutual defense, they EU will be trying to find a way to ask the U.S. to save them again like we did in WW I and WWII, right? What are the Germans going to do when the U.S. begins to redistribute its troops around the world and out of Germany? Any NATO challenges here?
Changes, via the EU constitution, are essential for parity and any future unity in a pragmatic sense for Europeans. What do they do with the horrible bureaucracy they created if there is no way for everyone to vote equitably?
Without taxation authority, via the constitution, how ever will those socialists ever raise the funds to drive the bureaucratic monster they created? Can you imagine, the Germans and French have already cut agricultural deals leaving countries like Poland and Spain out of the deal?
There is a statement about Christian heritage too in the proposed constitution. Agreement has not been reached on that issue either. What will secular Europe ever do without a commitment to a common Christian heritage?
Ten new nations and the fifteen existing nations are due to come together on April 30, 2004. How is this possible without a constitution? Spain and Poland, for example, have the same voting power as France and Germany and the newcomers don’t want that to change through a new constitution.

What we have in the fissure lines in European politics is a mess. Whether the issue is foreign policy, voting rights, mutual defense, or taxation authority, there does not seem to be any way to close the fissures before year’s end as projected.

The challenges are huge for Europe. Without a constitution, their economy will be a further bureaucratic drain on the world economy. It is a socialist nightmare to say the least. Further, embedded attitudes on international trade around common agricultural policy will create more resistance, not less to EU efforts.

Then there is the issue of Iraq as it relates to countries like Poland and Spain who are helping the U.S. at this time. Without the constitution, it allows countries in the Eastward expansion of Europe to move closer to U.S. foreign policy and leave poor old Berlin and Paris scratching you know what.

Paris and Berlin deserve all they are getting right now in Europe. They are pushing socialist policies that will put a drag on the world economy and free trade in the least case scenario, but in the worst case, the EU will end up with one more bureaucratic mess from which international entrepreneurs will run like blazes. How will New Mexico ever be able to work a deal on economic development/international trade with the Europeans as long as this mess exists?

Now do you see why we will need a new kind of diplomat for the future in the U.S.? We cannot expect the U.S. socialist universities to create the “diplomat” we will need. It will take private sector financing to fund such an effort. Any takers out there?

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