>Also, muslim friends in France tell me that most muslim
>citizens there mostly voted yes....since the EU is seen as a
>protection of sorts against the racist right.
And yet it's the EU that has created the 'Fortress Europe' / Schengen
immigration control system, well documented by Didier Bigot et al.'s
excellent research over recent years that has so strongly contributed to
the climate of fear and racism in Europe...
The votes AGAINST the constitution (not the EU project in toto, of
course) on the left are generally because it enshrines a far more
neo-liberal imperative that most would want, and does very little to
protect anybody, and because it is fundamentally uninspiring
poorly-written and verbose vision - in fact, as a document, it is
perhaps the least inspiring constitution I have read...
David.
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