How Long to Read What the EU Constitution Does

How Long Does it Take to Read What the EU Constitution Does?

It takes the average reader and 40 minutes to read What the EU Constitution Does by The National Platform Eu Research and Information Centre

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In 2001 the Laeken Declaration of EU Presidents and Prime Ministers set up the Convention on the Future of Europe to consider the widely acknowledged problem of the lack of democracy in the EU, and how to make the EU less centralised and bring it closer to its peoples. This Laeken Declaration referred to the possibility of restoring powers from the EU to its Member States and mentioned the drafting of a Constitution only as another possibility, "in the long run". But instead of making proposals for a more democratic and less centralised EU, the Euro-federalists who dominated the Convention rushed headlong into drafting a Constitution which proposes replacing the existing EU by a new Union in the constitutional form of a supranational European Federal State. The Constitution they drafted does not propose repatriating a single power from Brussels to the EU Member States. Instead it aims to abolish a further 69 national vetoes and shifts the relevant policy areas and decisions to Brussels, which would make for an even more centralised and undemocratic EU than the EU that exists at present. These are listed in the Appendix to this document. Establishing a new European Union in the constitutional form of a European Federation was very much a project of French President Jacques Chirac, supported by Germany. It was President Chirac who insisted at the 2000 Nice summit that his predecessor, Giscard d'Estaing, be appointed President of the drafting Convention. Giscard decisively influenced the Constitution text and it was he who decided that a consensus existed on the final draft, without taking a single vote on the thousand or so amendments that had been submitted to it by the Convention members. At the subsequent summit meeting of EU governments in December 2003 Spain and Poland would not agree to the Constitution's proposed shift to a primarily population-based voting system for making European laws, something that France and Germany regarded as crucial, although it would have reduced Spain and Poland's relative voting weights.The Madrid terrorist bombing in spring 2004 brought down the Spanish Government and its successor changed Spain's policy. Left as the lone objector, Poland then caved in. In these new circumstances it was relatively easy for Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to secure the necessary consensus amongst all 25 government leaders, simultaneously doing a signal favour for President Chirac, during Ireland's EU presidency in June 2004. The Presidents and Prime Ministers signed the Constitution the following October.

How long is What the EU Constitution Does?

What the EU Constitution Does by The National Platform Eu Research and Information Centre is 40 pages long, and a total of 10,000 words.

This makes it 13% the length of the average book. It also has 12% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read What the EU Constitution Does Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes and 54 minutes to read What the EU Constitution Does aloud.

What Reading Level is What the EU Constitution Does?

What the EU Constitution Does is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

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