David Sumberg MEP
Date: 28/08/2002
Straw leading UK into Euro Superstate
Responding to confirmation by
the Foreign Office that the European Constitution proposed by Jack Straw would
be legally binding and may well include the Charter of Fundamental Rights, North
West Euro MP David Sumberg said:
"Confirmation that Jack Straw's European Constitution would be legally binding
and may include the Charter of Fundamental Rights flies totally in the face of
undertakings previously given by the Government that neither of these would be
the case".
"This is a serious step towards integration and political union which runs
counter to all the government's rhetoric about nation states in Europe. It
underlines the fact that this government is totally committed to the creation of
a politically united Europe and emphasises the importance of our campaign to
argue for a flexible partnership of sovereign nation states in Europe within
which we can retain our right to self determination which Blair and Straw are so
keen to betray."
"We do welcome his conversion to our longstanding suggestion of a subsidiarity
panel, which should finally give credibility to subsidiarity, although it sits
uncomfortably with his determination to create a European superstate."