Sarkozy’s “Committee of Wise Men” to Contemplate Long Term Plans for European Union
October 23rd, 2007Will masks and capes be optional?
Via: MSNBC/Financial Times:
The mishmash of opt-outs and compromises contained in the treaty shows how the bargain that underpinned the EU’s evolution over the past 20 to 25 years may now be obsolete. Under the old pragmatic arrangements, countries that wanted an ever more united Europe created the euro, set up a zone of passport-free travel across much of the EU and pushed the case for closer co-operation on foreign policy and judicial and home affairs.
Those less keen on the “abstract ideal” of European unity won the argument for expanding the EU into a bloc of at least 28 members (Croatia is expected to join in the next few years).
In the view of some leaders, notably Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, this two-track approach no longer works, because it fails to provide clear-cut answers to the burning questions of the day. Where, geographically speaking, does the EU end? And what will the EU look like and do, 20 to 30 years from now?
Mr Sarkozy wants the December summit to set up a “committee of wise men” to address such long-term questions. Other leaders suspect that his motives are less high-minded and that he simply wants to obtain a recommendation from the “wise men” that Turkey should never join the EU. That would clash with the EU’s position that Turkey is a candidate for membership.
Diplomats say Mr Sarkozy will get his committee but other countries will seek to neutralise it. “They’ll say, ‘Here’s your Jeep, put your wise men in it, drive to the swamp and have a nice day’,” one envoy predicts.
As the friction over the “wise men” proposal indicates, a successful Lisbon summit and the smooth ratification next year of the reform treaty will not by themselves guarantee a tension-free future for the EU. But the formal end of a difficult and debilitating phase of EU history is now in sight. For better or worse, the new battles are around the corner.
Related: Sarkozy Calls for “New World Order†at UN
Sarkozy, and his foreign minister Bernard Kouchner, are zionist puppets, constantly pushing an Israeli agenda.
France is going the way of Britain and the US, controlled by Jewish politicians with external allegiances.
The US has AIPAC which is well known. Britain has the three “Friends of Israel” groups tied to it’s main political parties, which are seldom mentioned in the media.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Friends_of_Israel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Friends_of_Israel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democrat_Friends_of_Israel
Has France now got a similar organisation eating away at it’s government?