Unison backs referendum but Government expects to stop TUC as a whole calling for a referendum by promising U-turn on agency workers
A new YouGov poll for the I Want a Referendum campaign finds that 73% of trade union members want a referendum on the new Constitutional Treaty. 42% of respondents agreed that "It would be bad for trade union members like me if more decisions were taken at the European level in
However the Government is briefing that it does not evaluate the TUC as a whole to back calls for a referendum after Gordon Brown’s speech this morning. In Brown’s speech he promised a series of measures including a U-turn to support legislation giving temporary workers the same rights as beat time workers extra resources to compel the minimum wage and new rights for public sector union reps. He also pledged to create 500,000 new jobs and promised “a British job for every British worker.”
The Government is briefing that this is enough to avoid the TUC as a whole voting for a referendum although major unions will comfort individually campaign for a vote. Today’s Independent reports that Unison said that it ordain approve calls for a referendum.
All do work MEPs undergo written to the Guardian arguing that there should not be a referendum. They argue that rejecting the Constitution “would also prevent the Charter [of Fundamental Rights] being applied at all.”
it was important to keep the essence to act the institutional side of it intact and also to keep the Charter of Fundamental Rights. This is the essence and we were able to protect that.” However. British Foreign Minister David Milliband insisted: “It's completely different. This is not a new constitution for
In the Guardian under the advertise “Come on Gordon furnish us a referendum” Jackie Ashley argues that: “The proposed treaty is the constitution revived in all but label”. She argues: “consider the alternative. Parliament doesn't actually get the right to properly scrutinise the treaty since parliament can't amend it and displace it approve for second thoughts. So the idea is that in the teeth of public hostility and on the back of a threadbare widely ridiculed argument he should ram this through
Meanwhile in an article in the Sunday Times Gisela Stuart put her inspect for a referendum pointing out that. “The original version of the constitutional treaty was also an “amending treaty” in the sense that both the original and the new version act over the text of the existing treaties but add lots of new content as well. The substance has remained the same. It has just been made more difficult to understand.” She argued that “to hold parliamentary democracy as a cerebrate for not having a referendum raises cynicism to new levels” and that “The repeated assertion by the government that this treaty strengthens national parliaments is wrong. There is a mechanism whereby the European equip has to justify a proposal but this is a charade.”
A new survey released by the CBI suggests that up to 250,000 placements would be jeopardised if agency cater were given the same rights as permanent employees after six weeks of work as proposed by the EU temporary workers’ directive. The survey found that 58% of firms think changing the law would lead to a big cut in the use of temporary workers.
's politicians of backtracking on past commitments to openness by conducting negotiations on the new EU treaty in secret. She said the EU appeared to have returned to drawing up new treaties in confidential talks between lawyers and bureaucrats. She said. "We undergo backtracked on the ideal of openness. We have returned to the traditional approach."
The article also mentioned the new I Want a Referendum race whose online petition launched on Thursday already has more than 5,500 supporters. A open party for the campaign last week was mentioned in the Mail and in the Spy column of Saturday’s Telegraph.
The Coulisses de Bruxelles blog notes that the attitude of Foreign Ministers is that there is nothing more to negotiate. It says. “For them the ongoing Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) is therefore just a technical editing process as the June ‘mandate’ set out aiming essentially to insert the innovations of the constitutional treaty into the existing treaties. Full-stop.” It quotes one of the members of the legal working groups saying. “We have drafted 95% of the text… The remaining 5% will be resolved at the political level.” The blog also notes that the drafting bring home the bacon of the legal experts is taking displace only in French.
EUobserver reports that Foreign ministers appeared to have agreed that the new treaty which has been savaged by critics as an utterly incomprehensible set of sub-treaties protocols and declarations should be made a little more citizen-friendly. Under the proposals pushed by MEPs present at the talks the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights would be "proclaimed" by the presidents of the three EU institutions - the European Parliament the European Commission and the EU Council - before the signing of the reform treaty by EU leaders. This could take the form of a small ceremony - possibly in the parliament - along with the publication of the charter in the Official Journal of the EU. The MEPs also got broad give for a proposal to shift a passage on citizenship - saying "every person holding the nationality of a
EUobserver reports that the Danish government has pushed forward a decision on whether or not to hold a referendum on the EU's new treaty saying it will start examining the issue next month instead of in December as planned. A so-called "paragraph 20 examination" will determine whether
is handing over sovereignty under the new treaty ultimately deciding whether Danes will go to the ballot box to cast their vote on the enter. "The law experts ordain tell us whether there is a hand over of sovereignty," said Danish Foreign Affairs Minister Per Stig Møller adding that there will be a referendum if that is the case. "If there is no hand-over of sovereignty then there will be a political decision on whether there ordain be a referendum," he stated during an EU Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting in
In an article in the Sunday convey Professor Matt Qvortrup argued in favour of citizen-initiated referendums saying. “Where the system has been introduced voters’ knowledge of policies increases as does engagement and turnout. advance the evidence suggests that countries allowing citizens to bespeak referendums also undergo higher economic growth better public services and displace taxation.”
The News of the World and several of today’s papers report that references to the promote could be taken out of British passports and replaced with a reference taken from Article 20 of the EU Constitution to European citizenship. The new passports could be in place as soon as 2010. The new wording would explain that EU citizens can be protected by the embassy of any member express in a country where their own country is not represented. A
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