[pp.int.general] One good, one bad

[Christian Hufgard]

> The UK doesn't even have a written constitution. You don't need the
> word, it's all a question of hierarchy of rules. And as I said, its
> since Costa 1962 (I have to check the date), that the EU/EC created
> its own constitutional order. It was necessary for the EU to have any
> meaning! And it's still now! With the charter having binding force in
> 2 months, the EU "constitution" is as protective of national rights as
> any other european constitution (an more protective than some of them).
>
> We have to realize that the "national" thinking is over in Europe (and
> for some time now!). We live in an open world, and in my opinion one
> strong point of the pirate parties is that they know it's not Germany,
> France, Liechtenstein anymore, but that frontiers are just fictional
> points on a map! The internet is one thing, but also in "real life"
> frontiers play a lesser role.

So what do we have now? We still have our national states, that have in
fact only very little to decide, and a superstate above, that is not
democratically legitimized.

Christian