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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/constitution/france

Foselyne Bachelot criticises Laruent Fabius' suggestions

Brussels, 23/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - |In a press release, French EPP-ED MEP Roselyne Bachelot writes that Laurent Fabius' Plan P (for Pire, meaning 'worst'), saying it puts forward three inept and dangerous demands for renegotiating the European Constitution. Ms Bachelot also rejects proposals to scrap the third part of the Constitution (on EU policies) as meaning scrapping the CAP, the European Parliament's headquarters in Strasbourg, cultural exceptions, the legal basis for public services, the coordination of economic policies, the social clause and the draft common policies on asylum and immigration. On the suggestion of amending the Constitution with a majority vote, the UMP MEP said that would mean agreeing in the future to the constitutional pact being changed against French interests and would run counter to the nature of the European Union as a Union of sovereign states, not a federal state. Launching an avant-garde of a handful of European states as an alternative to adopting the Constitution would, says Bachelot, create a ground of counties of comparable economic and social levels with the vocation of suffering social and fiscal dumping from less developed countries which are not bound by the more binding rules of the Constitution. Bachelot said that the idea is anti-social and sterile and the first victims of it would be French companies and workers.

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