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On a related matter I wondered if there was not something similar that happened to the "Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe" [0]. As any French citiz
by JPLeRouzic 6y ago
On a related matter I wondered if there was not something similar that happened to the "Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe" [0].
As any French citizen I had to vote on it in 2005 and I took the time to read the long document (484 pages).
A constitution is usually a very short document, and a 484 page length is highly unusual, but to my great surprise there were many topics that were never mentioned in the media.
Only 13 pages (Part II: ~2.7 %) are really about an EU constitution.
20 pages are about the EU institutions (4%)
The rest is about other matters, and some of them are very surprising for a a constitutional document.
Some examples:
* Declaration on the Ignalina nuclear power plant in Lithuania
* Declaration on Unit 1 and Unit 2 of the Bohunice V1 nuclear power plant in Slovakia
I always fancy that a secretary dropped and mixed up two reams of papers from two unrelated topics, and nobody anyway took the time to check a document of this length.
[0] https://europa.eu/european-union/sites/europaeu/files/docs/body/treaty_establishing_a_constitution_for_europe_en.pdf https://europa.eu/european-union/sites/europaeu/files/docs/b...