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EU Leader Encourages British PM to Keep British in Dark About EU Treaty

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker says it’s
best for Britons not to debate “transfers of sovereignty”
required under the new EU treaty.
(John Thys/AFP/Getty Images)

Luxembourg’s premier, Jean-Claude Juncker, said Britain’s new prime minister, Gordon Brown, is right to hide the fact that the new EU treaty will mean “transfers of sovereignty.” He explained that he supports public debate on the treaty—just not in Britain, where voters would probably value their sovereignty above their membership in the EU.
Valéry d’Estaing, former French president and one of the architects of the failed EU constitution, has said the new treaty is really just a disguised version of the constitution, that the treaty “still contains all the key elements [of the constitution]” and that “all the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way.”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed, saying, “The fundamentals of the constitution have been maintained in large part.” European Commissioner Margot Wallström went so far as to say the treaty is “essentially the same proposal as the old constitution.”
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