RE: The French 'NO'

Dear Trond
I totally agree with you, I have been against the horrible Maastricht
treaty, Dublin's stability pact, the Amsterdam Treaty and the Nice
Treaty. The poliitics of the EU leading up to Maastricht have been a
major cause of the war in Yugolasvia and specifically in Bosnia.
Leftwing academics in the anglo world have no idea of intra european
union's politics and economics, it totally by-passes them as they are
not accustomed to Lucrezia Borgia's politics. Also Brussels is very deft
at cheating and at parading - outside the EU - the social Europe version
and not the true face of the Maastricht + all the rest stuff.
Best regards, joseph

joseph halevi

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Sent: Monday, 30 May 2005 4:43 PM
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Subject: [HE] The French 'NO'

As an European leftie that is a citizen of one of the two Western
European
countries which is not a member of the EU, I have through the years felt
a
bit exasperated that left-wing academics outside Europe cannot
understand
how radicals can be against the EU project: "such a position should be
left
to Le Pen and the British Conservatives."

I remember having a brief discussion about this during one of the
sessions
at the SHE conference in Sydney in December last year.

After the largely left-dominated 'NO' movement in France for everyone to

observe, I hope it will now be more easy to get overseas academic
left-wing
acceptance for the position that the EU is mainly a
capitalist-bureaucratic
empire project, and that national domestic autonomy also under
capitalism is
preferable by far.

Anyway, I don't expect to convince anyone by this, I only ask them to
seriously consider the idea.

Trond Andresen

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Trond Andresen <trond.andresen_at_itk.ntnu.no>
 
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical
Engineering Department of Engineering Cybernetics N-7491 Trondheim,
NORWAY 
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