Anticipazione dal volume collettivo "Europa 2.0 prospettive ed evoluzioni del sogno europeo", Nicola Vallinoto e Simone Vannuccini (a cura di), ombre corte, Verona, maggio 2010.
Le condizioni per il rilancio del processo costituente in Europa
Monica Frassoni
* On 1 December 2009, the date of entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, there were few celebrations. Indeed, let us say that the date is passed in the relative indifference of the majority of public opinion and political Europe.
And maybe normal, if one considers that the reform process was started as a response to the failure of the Intergovernmental Conference of 2000, designed to prepare the enlargement of the EU and led to a stormy European Council in Nice, during which were violent street clashes with the first black blocks, which have undermined the effort to bring to the streets thousands of people from all over Europe, has had his moment of glory in the work of the European Convention in 2003, then stumbled in French and Dutch referendums in 2005 to be put back on track by Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy in 2007, as revised in and correct the Treaty of Lisbon, without preamble or flag or anthem, was re-stumbled into the referendum in Ireland in 2008 and ended after a further referendum in Ireland and after the final overcoming of the boycott of Vaclav Klaus (President of the Czech Republic ) in 2009.
A very rough path for a truly exciting little away as possible from the dream of a Constitution for Europe, which was short, with a clear definition of functions, powers, institutional framework, accompanied by a Charter of Fundamental Rights by the European Court of Justice directly. Although the Lisbon Treaty is a step forward compared to the Nice Treaty there is no doubt that its entry into force takes place in a historical period in which the re-nationalization of European policies and the substantial weakening of the powers of integrated institutions Commission, Court of Justice and Parliament are already a reality. A reality so much harder to accept as necessary would be the presence on the international stage of a European Union and cohesive decision-making mechanisms with fast, transparent, democratic in areas as critical as foreign policy and security policy development, immigration and the fight against climate change, to assist the conversion of the ecological economic and social system. The failure of the climate summit in Copenhagen (December 2009) is just the latest demonstration of how unrealistic the gesticulation of leaders who still delude themselves that they have a power that no longer matches the reality of a deeply divided - and hence margins - the Europe on global challenges critical to our survival.
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Monica Frassoni, President of the European Green Party. He began his policy in the European Federalist Movement - a former president of Jef - and has continued in the Green Group in the European Parliament. Become a MEP in 1999 with the Belgian French-speaking Ecolo green, the first Italian elected abroad. Reelected in 2004 for the Italian Greens. Until 2009 she was co-chairman of the Parliamentary Group of the Greens. Sites: www.monicafrassoni.eu; www.europeangreens.org.
Le condizioni per il rilancio del processo costituente in Europa
Monica Frassoni
* On 1 December 2009, the date of entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, there were few celebrations. Indeed, let us say that the date is passed in the relative indifference of the majority of public opinion and political Europe.
And maybe normal, if one considers that the reform process was started as a response to the failure of the Intergovernmental Conference of 2000, designed to prepare the enlargement of the EU and led to a stormy European Council in Nice, during which were violent street clashes with the first black blocks, which have undermined the effort to bring to the streets thousands of people from all over Europe, has had his moment of glory in the work of the European Convention in 2003, then stumbled in French and Dutch referendums in 2005 to be put back on track by Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy in 2007, as revised in and correct the Treaty of Lisbon, without preamble or flag or anthem, was re-stumbled into the referendum in Ireland in 2008 and ended after a further referendum in Ireland and after the final overcoming of the boycott of Vaclav Klaus (President of the Czech Republic ) in 2009.
A very rough path for a truly exciting little away as possible from the dream of a Constitution for Europe, which was short, with a clear definition of functions, powers, institutional framework, accompanied by a Charter of Fundamental Rights by the European Court of Justice directly. Although the Lisbon Treaty is a step forward compared to the Nice Treaty there is no doubt that its entry into force takes place in a historical period in which the re-nationalization of European policies and the substantial weakening of the powers of integrated institutions Commission, Court of Justice and Parliament are already a reality. A reality so much harder to accept as necessary would be the presence on the international stage of a European Union and cohesive decision-making mechanisms with fast, transparent, democratic in areas as critical as foreign policy and security policy development, immigration and the fight against climate change, to assist the conversion of the ecological economic and social system. The failure of the climate summit in Copenhagen (December 2009) is just the latest demonstration of how unrealistic the gesticulation of leaders who still delude themselves that they have a power that no longer matches the reality of a deeply divided - and hence margins - the Europe on global challenges critical to our survival.
Continue in Europe 2.0
Monica Frassoni, President of the European Green Party. He began his policy in the European Federalist Movement - a former president of Jef - and has continued in the Green Group in the European Parliament. Become a MEP in 1999 with the Belgian French-speaking Ecolo green, the first Italian elected abroad. Reelected in 2004 for the Italian Greens. Until 2009 she was co-chairman of the Parliamentary Group of the Greens. Sites: www.monicafrassoni.eu; www.europeangreens.org.
