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The EU will now cease to integrate, it will remould itself into a union of independent nation states committed to free markets and free trade.
Sarkozy will be elected President in France, and Merkel Chancellor in Germany along with a Conservative administration in the UK in 2009 and free market, neo-liberal economics will be permanently integrated into the EU.
Given its the Brits and the Poles who are about the only ones who would like this I cant see it happening.
What makes you believe there will be a Tory government in 2009 anyway? Do you and Mark Steyn share the same crystal ball or something? If that is the case I'd advise finding a new clairvoyant- Steyn's predictions have a habit to turn out as utter rubbish.
If only. It's a matter of time, Every huge banking establishment on the continent wants one, just as every one in "the uk" doesn't, and for the exact same selfish reasons.
As though it matters anyway.
Not everyone voted no for the same reason...
The Dutch vote will be more interesting, if only because it looks like it may be an even more decisive no than France. It may not kill the EU, but if countries like France and Holland are voting no, its certainly got to be a wake-up call to the EU that they need to bring the people along with its grandiose schemes rather than just journalists and politicians.
Do you want to apply for visas from now on every time you travel in the Continent?
Do you want to be restricted to live and work in your own country only, for all your life, unless a working or living visa for elsewhere can be obtained?
Do you want trade to drastically reduce and businesses in Britain and elsewhere to lose hundreds of billions of Pounds in trade?
Not for me, thanks.
Is that why some of the UK businesses in Northern Ireland are already accepting Euro's?
Sorry but it is more that "just a tidy". There are additional elements in it.
Still, the vote makes no difference to the underlying issues, because they are covered by most other treaties.
It's this kind of comment which worries me.
There is no such thing as voting no for the wrong reason, when you do not have the option of voting no in any other forum.
The French vote was designed to send a specific message (or series of messages) to the people in power. Basically they are saying that we don't like what the EU has become and I really cannot blame them. Okay that wasn't what this questio was about, but the constitution was reinforcing the system which the French didn't want, so no was actually appropriate.
I look forward to having the same opportunity although I can forsee the Govt trying to weasel their way out of letting us voice our opinion any time soon.
if businesses were so opposed to it then they wouldnt be accepting it.
Red herring! Stop talking rubbish lamp boy.
Red herring! Stop talking rubbish. People will still be able to work abroad.
Rubbish, Britain is a vaulable market to many EU countries so I can't see them giving up trade. We can trade without the political tie-up and without the euro, its been proven already.
But then you're a europhile aren't you lamp boy!
Fact is, the French didn't. The French rejected liberal free-market economics, they rejected the very model that the Eurosceptics are demaning. Rather than rejecting the "superstate" outright, most commentators feel that the French rejected one version of a "superstate", one that does tie in with French national politics.
Mind, the people who are "sceptical" of Europe are the very same people who believe that the United States is a trustworthy trading partner, so it isn't surprising that their understanding of European politics is limited to say the least.
I dont agree with all of it, but it would enlighten you posters who defend Continental welfare systerms to the death in the face of overwhelming evidence that they are failing.
Why France must grow up
They aren't any less failing than the abject lack of a welfare system in your darling USA, though.
"A gulf between the haves and the have-nots". Sounds like the UK and USA too, to me.
But this isnt about the USA - its about France and France needing to get out of the 1960's.
Although I would agree that France is out of sync with the rest of the world, just like Miterrand was in the early 1980s, I don't necessarily think that this makes them "backward".
Its about time the people running it made their minds up, imo.
Are you serious?
If Britain decided to opt out of a treaty, you would have French tanks sent in to force them to co-operate?
Who told you that?
Can you move to, say, Australia or Japan without obtaining a visa first?
If you, or europhobic tossers like Kuntroy-Stink think they can get rid of the EU and its red tape, laws, blah blah blah, and yet retain the immense benefits the EU have brought to everyone in Europe (freedom of movement, being able to live and work anywhere one likes) you might be in for a big surprise.
No more EU = no more freedom of movement/house in France/ 6 months a year in Spain.
And how will I laugh.
The EU greatly promotes trade. Without the EU trade will lose billions. Trade will not dissapear of course, but it will be reduced.
Do I really have to explain this to a "businessman" such as yourself?
Better than a closeminded europhobe, Child Troll.
Who told you that?
Can you move to, say, Australia or Japan without obtaining a visa first?
If you, or europhobic tossers like Kuntroy-Stink think they can get rid of the EU and its red tape, laws, blah blah blah, and yet retain the immense benefits the EU have brought to everyone in Europe (freedom of movement, being able to live and work anywhere one likes) you might be in for a big surprise.
No more EU = no more freedom of movement/house in France/ 6 months a year in Spain.
And how will I laugh.
The EU greatly promotes trade. Without the EU trade will lose billions. Trade will not dissapear of course, but it will be reduced.
Do I really have to explain this to a "businessman" such as yourself?
Better than a closeminded europhobe, Child Troll.
Funnily enough Aladdin is right and wrong. Its not true that we'll be signing away our soverignity as arguably we signed important chunks of that away years ago...